Italian authorities have recovered precious 3rd century B.C. artifacts from an Etruscan necropolis looted by a couple of bungling tomb raiders in Umbria who stumbled across the haul on their land.

Italian authorities announced Tuesday the seizure of an illegal excavation of an Etruscan burial site in the central Umbria region and are investigating two people for suspected theft of urns, sarcophagi and other artifacts worth 8 million euros ($8.

Italy’s Carabinieri has found the site of an illegal excavation of an Etruscan necropolis and recovered objects worth $8.5 million.

Officials claim the items once belonged to an influential Etruscan family that lived around the third century B.C.E. Reuters’ Alvise Armellini reports that police say the objects are worth over $8.4 million and were set for illegal sale on the black antiquities market.

Italian officials have recovered Etruscan artifacts in Italy looted by tomb raiders, estimated at $8.5 million.

Italian authorities have seized numerous well-preserved artifacts dating back to the third century BCE that were initially plundered from an Etruscan necropolis in the central region of Umbria, according to an announcement from the country’s Ministry of Culture yesterday,

Ancient artefacts worth at least €8m (£6.7m) have been recovered after being stolen by "tomb raiders" who accidentally found them on their land in Italy. The pieces included eight urns, sarcophagi and beauty accessories such as a bronze mirror and a perfume bottle which still smelled of its scent.

A pair of tomb raiders, whom Italian authorities are calling “clumsy and amateurish,” were foiled after looting millions of dollars worth of ancient Etruscan artifacts from a necropolis and attempting to sell them online.

Italian police have recovered a trove of “” Etruscan funereal artefacts stolen in an illegal excavation of a 2,300-year-old aristocratic tomb in Perugia. The vast array of treasures, believed to have belonged to Etruscan princesses,

Among the artifacts discovered at the second site were two sarcophagi thought to have contained Etruscan princesses.