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Costa Rica recovers archaeological pieces removed by US tycoon 3 minutes read San Jose, Jul 5 (EFE).- Costa Rica has recovered 1,305 very historically valuable archaeological pieces of ceramic and stone that were removed from the country by US railroad tycoon Minor Keith in the late 19th and early 20th centuries. The Costa Rican National Museum has completed the second repatriation – the first being in 2011 with the recovery of 981 pieces – from the Brooklyn Museum in New York, and the newly reacquired artifacts will allow it to complete the national collection. “It’s a way of recovering part of history … The first legislation that protects archaeological patrimony dates back to 1938. Then, when Minor Keith took the pieces between 1870 and 1910 while building the Atlantic railroad, he did it in a very natural way by ship because he sent them with machinery and other things and it wasn’t something over which (Costa Rica) had any control,” Patrimony Protection Depar

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