Is Indiana Jones an art thief?

Question

Is Indiana Jones an art thief?

Answer 1

Well it's not really stealing if he's doing it for museums. I mean he's stealing it before the poachers or tomb raiders do and put them on the black market. He is an archeologist, plus when a lot of the tombs in Egypt were discovered, they were already ransacked. Imagine in there was a real life Indiana Jones out there to grab them before the poachers stole them and either melted the artifacts down or sold them.

The main crime that Indy does is destroy the tombs. Every place he enters ends up destroyed, so if you're a government hoping to preserve an archeological dig for future generations, don't send in Indy.