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Authorities in Mexico City have recovered scores of priceless jade, gold and stone artifacts taken in the 1985 Christmas Day robbery of the National Museum of Anthropology. Federal agents found 133 of the 140 stolen treasures from the ancient Mayan, Aztec, Zapotec and Mixtec civilizations in canvas sacks stashed in a home in suburban Mexico City. Ten people were arrested after a series of raids on several residences. Among the items recovered were a Zapotec mask of the bat god Murielago and an obsidian Aztec sculpture of a monkey. Experts have described them as two of the most valuable pieces in a museum crammed with irreplaceable objects from civilizations dating back thousands of years.