Mexico wants its artifacts back, including two ancient figurines once featured in Kahlúa ads.
A campaign using social media and auction-house shaming has recovered thousands of relics and rattled international markets for artifactsMEXICO CITY—Mexico’s global hunt for missing ancient artifacts recently led to a Stockholm storage room, where a pair of 2,000-year-old ceramic figurines used decades ago to advertise the Mexican liqueur Kahlúa were gathering dust.
The startled Swedish corporate archivist who found the statuettes this spring contacted a Mexican Embassy official, who called anthropologists in Mexico City who soon certified them as shaft-tomb artifacts, leading to their return to Mexico in a June ceremony.
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