Overview
- The Foreign Ministry’s legal office delivered the pieces to INAH on December 5 after voluntary returns arranged through the Mexican Embassy and the consulates in New York, Sacramento and San Francisco.
- INAH specialists determined the objects belong to the nation’s cultural patrimony with stylistic traits linked to Mexica, Teotihuacan and Zapotec traditions dating from roughly 500 BCE to 1521 CE.
- The lot comprises anthropomorphic figures, ceramic fragments, ritual elements, stone carvings, earthenware vessels and tools.
- The delivery adds to more than 2,000 cultural goods repatriated during President Claudia Sheinbaum’s first year in office.
- The government emphasized continued interagency coordination and international cooperation to counter illicit trafficking and secure further restitutions.