1 published discovery from Guatemala — coins, hoards, jewellery and artefacts recovered by detectorists and archaeologists.
Global Finds has 1 find from Guatemala, a famous historical find. It is filed under jewellery. It is the Nebaj jade plaque, late Classic Maya, about AD 600-800.
The law: In Guatemala, as in most countries, archaeological finds are protected by national heritage law: report anything old or unusual to the national heritage authority, and never dig at a known site or export a find without permission.
In 1947 a Carnegie Institution team led by A. Ledyard Smith, digging a deep pit into a mound at Nebaj in Guatemala's highlands, found a carved jade breast plaque showing a seated Maya ruler. It is now held by the national archaeology museum in Guatemala City.
