Donate

Play Live Radio

Next Up:

0:00

0:00 0:00

Available On Air Stations

SC Public Radio's statewide network is experiencing intermittent outages and programming issues due to ongoing infrastructure upgrades. Our team is working to keep these disruptions to a minimum and to resolve issues that do arise. Streaming on this site, the SCETV App, the NPR App, and smart speakers is unaffected.

How more than 1,000 artifacts were found in a dumpster, then returned to Mexico

NPR | By Christopher Harland-Dunaway,

Mallory Yu, Juana Summers

Published August 21, 2026 at 5:00 PM EDT

More than 1,000 pre-Hispanic artifacts are being repatriated to Mexico from the United States thanks to Jeremy Pilver, a licensed archeologist in Connecticut, and his high school students.

Tags

All Things Considered

Christopher Harland-Dunaway

Mallory Yu

Mallory Yu is an associate producer for All Things Considered.

See stories by Mallory Yu

Juana Summers

Juana Summers is a host of NPR's All Things Considered.

See stories by Juana Summers