2 Seized in Theft of Pre-Incan Art

Federal agents in Philadelphia have arrested two men on charges they tried to sell a smuggled pre-Incan artifact that once lay under the bones of a warrior-priest buried in the Andes foothills. Orlando Mendez, 31, and Denis Garcia, 57, both of Miami, flew the piece into New York, drove down the New Jersey Turnpike to a parking lot at a Philadelphia hotel and tried to sell it for $1.6 million, authorities said. It came from the royal tombs of Sipan, Peru, and dates to the Moche civilization, which thrived from 100 BC to AD 700.