Posted by Troy Smith on October 25, 2019 at 9:54am
In the black market trade of Ancient Maya art, the exotic polychrome pottery known as Codex-style ceramics is considered hard currency. This pottery consists of fine, black line scenes painted on a white or cream background. Codex-style ceramics appear to have only been produced in the MiradorBasin and particularly at Nakbe.As you look at these pictures there is a looter with a pickaxe somewhere in the remote corners of the MiradorBasin in Northern Guatemala digging a looter's trench or tunnel and destroying an ancient Maya structure hoping to hit the jackpot and find one of these prized possessions.All current sites being excavated by the Mirador Basin Project are under heavy guard and no new looter's trenches have been found.Unfortunately, there are thousands of structures not yet discovered and mapped by Dr Richard Hansen's team that is unprotected.
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