Thrift store vase is actually an ancient Mayan artifact

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Originally published at: https://boingboing.net/2024/06/20/thrift-store-vase-is-actually-an-ancient-mayan-artifact.html

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Contributed by Allan Rose Hill

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Wow. What an awesome human.

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I hope that it is genuine, but even experts are wrong about Maya pottery. Often.

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… the staff told her to contact the US embassy when she returned to Washington.

I’m quite certain the US doesn’t have any embassies in Washington. Mexican embassy, perhaps?

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I think that they meant that she should contact the US embassy in Mexico, but could wait until after returning home.

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Yet?

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