Dr. James Fitzsimmons

Install replicas at the site and such, right?

And the reason why we did that is because we thought when a cartel moves into an area, usually what happens is, if it's an archaeological site, probably the first thing to go is going to be big burials.

So looting those pyramids, right?

It's the first thing that happens.

Even to this day?

Or if the cartel takes over the site, yeah, sure.

Or they'll actually take the monuments, the sculptured monuments, and they'll saw them down.

So what you do is you don't want to move like a big stone.

So they'll saw the face off and they'll saw it into pieces and they'll load it into trucks and take it.

And then it'll get sold on the art market and it'll go into like some probably European or American, you know, private possession.

It'll be a coffee table or something.

That's probably what will happen to it.

Right.

And so we thought that was going to potentially happen to us.

And so the site that I was working at, we're like, okay, well, we're going to have to evacuate this stuff out of here.

So we sort of got some money together and we sort of moved those things to Guatemala City.

And it turned out that the cartel actually didn't take over the site that we were at, luckily.

But they did take over the site next door, right down the way, and they did destroy the heck out of it.

I wasn't working there at the time, so we couldn't save it.

But that's just what it is.