TRAFFIC Stephanie Allison Jolluck had already been arrested two days earlier at Guatemala City International Airport with two archaeological pieces
A Mayan calendar. Illustration photo — JuanMarcelFrancia/Pixabay
Two Americans, including a woman who had already been arrested last Friday and released provisional, have been Arrested in Guatemala in Possession of 166 Pre-Columbian Maya Archaeological Pieces, Announced this Monday the Guatemalan justice. “Stephanie Allison Jolluck and Giorgio Salvador Rossilli were arrested in flagrante delicto while transporting 166 pieces in a vehicle which, according to an archaeologist from the General Directorate of Cultural Heritage, are at risk. 90% Authentic,” the prosecution in a statement.
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en una camioneta trasladaban, 166 piezas arqueológicas.
Se coordinó el y un arqueólogo de la Dirección General de Patrimonio Cultural para el peritaje correspondiente, por tal motivo son puestos a disposición del juzgado local. pic.twitter.com/r2enlVpAN2
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Giorgio Salvador Rossilli, 62, and Stephanie Allison Jolluck, 49, both residents of Guatemala, were arrested Sunday evening in the city of Antigua Guatemala, in 45 km southwest of the capital, as part of an investigation into trafficking in archaeological articles. The authorities did not specify the period of the objects seized, nor the region from which; they come from.
““Trafficking in national treasures”
Stephanie Allison Jolluck had been arrested for the first time on Friday at international airport in the Guatemalan capital as she tried to leave the country with two archaeological pieces of carved stone of Mayan origin. Indicted for “trafficking in national treasures” let loose temporary, accompanied by a ban on leaving the country and approaching places where can acquire archaeological pieces.
The Mayan civilization, which stretched from present-day southern Mexico to El Salvador through – what is now – Guatemala, Honduras and Belize, had its heyday during the “Classic Period” from 250 to 900 of the Christian era, before entering into decadence, from 900 to 1,200.