For several years the site was intensively plundered, resulting in pieces turning up on the market all over the world. The method employed by the looters was to drag a series of hooks across the site with nets behind them to dislodge and catch artifacts.
Over an extended period, the location was repeatedly ravaged, causing artifacts to appear in markets worldwide. The looters utilized a technique involving dragging hooks across the site while deploying nets behind them to extract and trap antiquities.