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Germany Returns Two 3,000-Year-Old Olmec Busts to Mexico | News | teleSUR English

23.3.18

Germany Returns Two 3,000-Year-Old Olmec Busts to Mexico | News | teleSUR English: According to Mexican authorities, the busts were illegally extracted from the El Manati Olmec archeological site, in the east coast state of Veracruz in the 1980s, and were then bought by Costa Rican art collector Leonardo Patterson in the black market, who exhibited them among his collection in Spain in 1997.

The exhibit sparked an investigation as many experts thought some of the pieces were fake while others suspected they had been illegally acquired.

Spanish authorities found out that in fact many of Patteron's pieces had been illegally extracted from their place of origin and sold in the international black market. They offered to return them to their rightful owners, but Patterson moved them to a storage in Munich in 2008.


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