Interesting, I read about excavations in beginning of 20th century on Wiki:

> In protest of the government's increasing restrictions, Carter and his associates stopped work in February 1924, beginning a legal dispute that lasted until January 1925. Under the agreement that resolved the dispute, the artefacts from the tomb would not be divided between the government and the dig's sponsors, as had been standard practice on previous Egyptological digs.

Why they did have a rule that private persons can take away the artifacts? It would be better not to dig anything.