A joint operation between the FBI, the Department of Justice and the New York Police Department resulted in the return of a stolen centuries-old “priceless cultural artifact” to the government of Mexico,

A stolen 16th-century manuscript signed by the Spanish conquistador Hernán Cortés has been found and returned to the Mexican government, the FBI said Thursday

Nearly five centuries after Spanish conquistador Hernán Cortés signed it and decades after someone swiped it from Mexico’s national archives, the FBI returned a priceless manuscript page to Mexico on Wednesday.