Mexico’s global hunt for missing ancient artifacts recently led to a Stockholm storage room, where a pair of 2,000-year-old ceramic figurines used decades ago to advertise the Mexican liqueur Kahlúa were gathering dust.⁠ ⁠ The startled Swedish corporate archivist who found the statuettes this spring contacted a Mexican Embassy official, who called anthropologists in Mexico City who soon certified them as shaft-tomb artifacts, leading to their return to Mexico in a June ceremony.⁠ ⁠ “I read some articles about how private people were giving back artifacts to Mexico,” said the archivist, Lovisa Severin Kragerud, who works for Kahlúa owner Absolut Vodka. “I thought maybe they would be angry, but they were very welcoming and appreciative.”⁠ ⁠ Mexico is significantly amping up its efforts to recover stolen or missing cultural patrimony, and in the process roiling international antiquities markets. Read more at the link in bio. (🖊️: Robert P. Walzer, 📷️: Photo Illustration by Plastic Palmtree for WSJ. Magazine; Photo: Jean Pierre Courau/Bridgeman Images/Shutterstock)