A woman purchased a nearly 2,000-year-old Mayan vase at a Maryland thrift store — but didn't realize what she had until she saw a similar one in a museum Charlotte Phillipp is a Weekend Writer ...
A Late Classic (A.D. 600–900) Maya vase from the Peten region of Guatemala portrays a king and queen (above, center) preparing to perform a ceremonial dance. Both royal figures wear feather ...
The vase turned out to be a 2,000-year-old Mayan artifact that is now headed to a Mexican museum. “It looked old-ish, but I thought maybe 20, 30 years old and some kind of tourist reproduction ...
When no one responded, Dozier reached out to the embassy, where staff asked her to send detailed pictures of the vase. A month later, Dozier learned it was a ceremonial urn from the Mayan ...