32 archaeological pieces located in the United States returned to Mexico / @SRE_mx >>>

#SRE.- The Ministry of Foreign Affairs (SRE), in coordination with the federal Ministry of Culture and the National Institute of Anthropology and History (INAH), recovered 32 archaeological pieces voluntarily delivered to the Mexican Consulate in Portland, Oregon, by U.S. citizen Marylou Morton.

In August 2023, Mrs. Morton expressed her decision to return the pieces, transferred from Mexico to the United States in the middle of the last century. Consequently, Consul Carlos Quesnel Meléndez went to the city of Eugene, Oregon, to formally receive the goods.

The reports made by INAH specialists confirmed that the 32 pieces are movable monuments property of the Mexican nation, defined and protected in accordance with the Federal Law on Archaeological, Artistic and Historic Monuments and Zones. Of the recovered objects, 31 are archaeological monuments, manufactured between 300 B.C. and 1521 A.D., while the remaining one is a historical property.

The consulate will send the archaeological pieces to Mexico, via diplomatic pouch, so that INAH specialists can make the corresponding rulings based on the physical inspection of the pieces.

The Government of Mexico, through the Mexican Consulate in Portland, thanks Mrs. Morton for the voluntary restitution of the archaeological artifacts and reiterates its call to the public not to participate in the plundering of archaeological objects and to preserve Mexican cultural heritage.

Our country has implemented a series of actions and legal strategies that have led to the restitution of Mexican cultural heritage located abroad, thanks to the joint efforts of the Ministries of Foreign Affairs and Culture.

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