Two grave robbers from China didn’t know the value of the antiques they dug from ancient tombs and sold them as cheap as 3 Yuan, the equivalent of 44 cents in Zhengzhou, China.

They managed to dig out more than 20 antiques from the tomb under the opening and sold them altogether for 12,000 Yuan ($1800).

Among the antiques was a painted woman pottery figure, which is worth more than 1 million Yuan ($146 000), but they sold it for only 3 Yuan (44 cents).

“We didn’t know the value of the things,” says the thief. “The collector said the pottery means nothing, so we gave it to him and he paid 3 Yuan for the pottery woman.”

However, when the tomb raiders learned that the tomb they dug is from the Sui Tang Dynasty, which is more than 1000 years ago, they were stunned by their discoveries and the low price they had asked for.

The two tomb raiders confessed that in the past two years they raided two tombs but sold all the unearthed objects at a super cheap price.

All items have been confiscated by the police.