Question

Its contents through hastily ransacked in antiquity meaning

Answer 1

These sentences are taken from the chapter ' Discovering Tut - The Saga Continues '.  These lines are spoken by Howard Carter, a British historian, who discovered Egyptian king Tut's tomb in the year 1922.  He admits that in a moment of hurry, he had damaged the antique statute.  But he was surprised to see that all parts of the statue were complete even after the damage.