SAN DIEGO (Border Report) — The Mexican Consulate in San Diego has recovered 65 archeological items taken from Mexico years in the past and held in California non-public collections.
Norm Werthman and Pete Mechalas, each U.S. residents and residents of San Diego County, voluntarily turned over the items hoping they’d be returned to Mexico, mentioned Carlos González Gutiérrez, Mexico’s Consul Common in San Diego.
“I’m grateful to those San Diego residents for his or her beneficiant gesture and willingness to return the artifacts to the Mexican individuals,” mentioned González. “That is a part of an ongoing effort by the Mexican Authorities to get better historic archeological items which are a part of our nation’s heritage.”
(Courtesy: Mexican Consulate in San Diego)
González said the artifacts have been analyzed by Mexico’s Secretary of Tradition and the Nationwide Institute of Anthropology and Historical past.
“Among the many returned items, there’s objects belonging to the Preclassical, Classical and Postclassical Mesoamerican durations discovered within the western, northwest, central highlands and the Gulf of Mexico areas,” he mentioned.
The artifacts will likely be returned to Mexico within the coming weeks. It was not made public how or when the non-public collectors obtained them.
