US EditionFBI Seizes 500-Year-Old Cortés Manuscript and Returns It to Mexico
The FBI recovered a 1527 Hernan Cortes manuscript stolen between 1985 and 1993 and returned it to Mexico as a protected cultural property, marking the second such repatriation.
- FBI announced on Wednesday that it returned a stolen, nearly 500-year-old Hernan Cortes manuscript to the Mexican government.
- Last year, Mexican authorities sought the FBI's help after archivists discovered 15 missing pages in October 1993, narrowing the theft timeline using wax numbering from 1985-1986.
- FBI special agent Jessica Dittmer said, `'This is an original manuscript page that was actually signed by Hernan Cortez,'` confirming its authenticity.
- It marks the second Cortés manuscript the FBI has repatriated to Mexico, with no charges filed against past stakeholders, according to FBI special agent Jessica Dittmer.
- Mexico has for decades sought repatriation of cultural artifacts, and this return underscores the value of protected property as the U.S. antiques market reaches tens of billions of dollars.
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Pages written more than 500 years ago. The signature is from Hernán Cortés, the Spanish conqueror who, after having taken over the Mexican capital in 1521, continued his advance through the American territory. Documents lost at the end of the last century that the U.S. authorities recovered and returned to Mexico on Wednesday, August 13, the FBI reported. “It is an original manuscript page that was signed by Hernán Cortés on February 20, 1527,” …
US returns 500-year-old stolen manuscript signed by Hernán Cortés
A stolen manuscript signed by Spanish conquistador Hernán Cortés is back in Mexico after a binational investigation traced the document to the U.S. Nearly five centuries after Cortés affixed his signature to the page, the U.S. Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) handed the priceless cultural artifact back to Mexico. Today, the FBI returned a stolen manuscript signed by Spanish conquistador Hernán Cortés to the government of Mexico. The repatr…
On Wednesday, August 13, the FBI returned to the Government of Mexico an original page signed by Hernán Cortés on February 20, 1527, taken from the General Archives of the Nation between the mid-1980s and 1993. The document, which orders payments in gold to finance an expedition to the "spice lands", was located in the United States following a joint investigation by the FBI's Art Crimes team and the New York Police, with support from the Distri…
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