How more than 1,000 artifacts were found in a dumpster, then returned to Mexico

Connecticut archaeologist and high school teacher Jeremy Pilver told NPR that more than 1,000 pre-Hispanic Mexican objects are being returned to Mexico. His wife’s uncle, Matthew Pioggia, spotted pieces in a western Massachusetts dumpster about two and a half years earlier, spent about four hours pulling them out, and later delivered roughly 50 boxes. Students spent nearly two years cleaning and cataloging. Paperwork showed a loan from Mexico’s National Museum of Archaeology about 55 years earlier. Pilver delivered the boxes to a Mexican consulate.