Mexico gets its treasures back As if taking their cue from the infamous grinch who stole Christmas, thieves broke into Mexico City's National Museum of Anthropology in the early morning of December 25, 1985, and made off with 124 priceless pre-Columbian treasures. Years passed, and no leads turned up, leaving museum curators and law enforcement officials with little hope of recouping any of the objects lost in the country's largest museum theft ever.
Then, last June, police found ...