FBI returns stolen document signed by conquistador Hernán Cortés to Mexico
by Guardian staff and agencies from World news | The Guardian on (#6ZANX)
US officials did not say who had the 16th-century page that was missing from Mexico's archives for decades
Nearly five centuries after Spanish conquistador Hernan Cortes signed it and decades after someone swiped it from national archives, a priceless manuscript page has been returned by the FBI to Mexico.
The document contains a detailed accounting of the logistics related to Cortes's journey to what eventually became New Spain - a territory that stretched from Central America to modern-day Washington state.
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