
This is the kind of crap that makes me doubt the true contributions of museums to a greater understanding of our planet and our past. They are not much different that mega-wealthy art collectors who just grab anything they can for their collection without knowing, or caring what it is, it's all just another acquisition to them.
As this story plainly illustrates, museums don't do a whole lot better job of cataloging their collections than the average "cultural artifact thief", in fact might actually be worse as they don't have the slightest idea of what they have (or in many cases where it came from) deflating their arguments that "amateur treasure hunters" are destroying history.
Don't get me wrong, I like visiting museums as much as the next guy, I just don't approve of their holier than thou attitude when it's painfully obvious that they are just greedy bastards too.