ASH AMAZING: Real-Life Indiana Joneses Use Hotel Ashtray To Date When Ancient Artefacts Were Looted

The items given by the family in Spain are seen in Mexico facilities in an undated picture. They are kept by the INAH in the Museum of Templo Mayor.
Notes: Licenced picture (Gerardo Torres-INAH/Newsflash) The items given by the family in Spain are seen in Mexico facilities in an undated picture. They are kept by the INAH in the Museum of Templo Mayor. Notes: Licenced picture (Gerardo Torres-INAH/Newsflash)
Copyrights: Gerardo Torres-INAH/Newsflash

27 July 2022
Experts tracking a collection of more than 2,000 ancient Mexican treasures have been helped by five-cent coins and a hotel ashtray stashed with them. Officials from the Mexican National Institute of Anthropology and History (INAH) used the clues to work out when the artefacts left the...