What should I do with some Aztec artifacts that I have found?

Question

I am in Mexico and I have found some very cool things from the Aztecs. I have found a few arowheads made of obsidian some clay discs with hirogliphics carved in them, some earrings, and the coolest thing of all is that yesterday I found a small statue of a girl holding a dog. it hase a lot of detail. but what should I do with these things?

Answer 1

Mexico is full of those artifacts and you will not find anything to do with those there... Also the ones that complain about archeological remains should go to sleep... The truth is they are not enough archeologist in the world to study everything, so chance are that those things you hold would have been found by a real scientist in another 1000 years from now... So better to put them in circulation... But it is a nice idea to keep the location of each on a map, so it could be usefull for you if it happen that you want to look for more around the same place.

My advice, built a small collection in your house, if you need money later in your life you could just sell them, when the stock market is low, or simply just give them to your childs to pass those over the next generations. Those artifacts do need to be kept in the hands of those who knows how valuable they are (historically).

Answer 2

clay disk with hieroglyphics? somehow i doubt this. i would like to see a photo of this one. i am unaware the aztecs produced clay objects with hieroglyphics displayed on them. they did have a picture writing, but it was used almosr exclusively on parchment.

Answer 3

Leave them where you found them or give them to the mexican anthropological association.

All the earth is a grave and nothing escapes it, nothing is so perfect that it does not descend to its tomb. Rivers, rivulets, fountains and waters flow, but never return to their joyful beginnings; anxiously they hasten on the vast realms of the rain god. As they widen their banks, they also fashion the sad urn of their burial.

Filled are the bowels of the earth with pestilential dust once flesh and bone, once animate bodies of man who sat upon thrones, decided cases, presided in council, commanded armies, conquered provinces, possessed treasure, destroyed temples, exulted in their pride, majesty, fortune, praise and power. Vanished are these glories, just as the fearful smoke vanishes that belches forth from the infernal fires of Popocatepetl. Nothing recalls them but the written page.

Answer 4

Give them to me.  I have found out that I have Aztec ancesters.  :D

Answer 5

You should have left the artifacts where they were and only took pictures of them. You just disturbed an archaeological site and are now considered a looter. Also, I'm not sure about the laws in Mexico, but in most countries that is a crime and you could be in serious trouble. In the future LEAVE the artifacts alone and contact an archaeologist at a local university or museum.

Answer 6

Contact Harvard University's Peabody Museum of Natural History.

Answer 7

Give them to the Mexican Government. If they catch you trying to take them out of the country, they will arrest you for plundering an archaeological site and you could spend the rest of your life in a Mexican prison.