Anne Lee Dozier of Washington, D.C. displayed a 2,000-year-old Mayan vase in her library for five years before learning its origin after picking it up at a thrift shop for $4.
A Washington, D.C., woman had no idea that the vase she purchased for $3.99 at a thrift store was a Mayan artifact over 1,000 years old. Five years later, the misplaced ceramic will be returned to its home country of Mexico. Anna Lee Dozier said she noted the vase was 'recognizably from Mexico' and 'looked old' when she encountered it at the 2A Thrift Store in the Clinton, Maryland, area.
'In April, they contacted me to say that, yes, it was in fact something real and very, very old,' Dozier said. ' just said: Congratulations, it is real. And we would like it back — in a very nice way. Which is what I had intended.' Dozier packed up the vase in a food-delivery box lined with newspapers and drove to the Mexican Cultural Institute in D.C. on Tuesday. 'That little 30-minute drive, the whole way, I was just praying that no fender benders, no accidents.
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