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VATICAN ASKS TURKEY TO ALLOW IT TO EXAMINE1500-YEAR-OLD BIBLE
PanARMENIAN.Net
February 23, 2012 - 14:20 AMT
PanARMENIAN.Net - The Vatican has requested that Turkey allow it to
examine a 1500-year-old Bible that was discovered by Turkish police
during an anti-smuggling operation in 2000 and handed over to the
Ankara Ethnography Museum.
As Today's Zaman reported, citing Turkish Bugun daily, the Bible is
reportedly written in Aramaic, the language of Jesus, and is said to
be worth TL 40 million. According to the publication, the Bible was
seized from a gang smuggling artifacts during a police operation in
southern Turkey in 2010 and reportedly preserves its originality and
many traces of the period it's from.
The gang was reportedly convicted of smuggling various items seized
during the operation, including the Bible, and all the artifacts
were kept in a safe in the Ankara Courthouse. The Bible, which was
reportedly kept in the courthouse for years, was only recently handed
over to the care of Ankara Ethnography Museum.
The leather-bound Bible is written on leather sheets and is now under
protection as it is regarded as a valuable cultural asset. Even a
Xerox copy of pages from the book is reported to be worth as much as
TL 3-4 million.
PanARMENIAN.Net
February 23, 2012 - 14:20 AMT
PanARMENIAN.Net - The Vatican has requested that Turkey allow it to
examine a 1500-year-old Bible that was discovered by Turkish police
during an anti-smuggling operation in 2000 and handed over to the
Ankara Ethnography Museum.
As Today's Zaman reported, citing Turkish Bugun daily, the Bible is
reportedly written in Aramaic, the language of Jesus, and is said to
be worth TL 40 million. According to the publication, the Bible was
seized from a gang smuggling artifacts during a police operation in
southern Turkey in 2010 and reportedly preserves its originality and
many traces of the period it's from.
The gang was reportedly convicted of smuggling various items seized
during the operation, including the Bible, and all the artifacts
were kept in a safe in the Ankara Courthouse. The Bible, which was
reportedly kept in the courthouse for years, was only recently handed
over to the care of Ankara Ethnography Museum.
The leather-bound Bible is written on leather sheets and is now under
protection as it is regarded as a valuable cultural asset. Even a
Xerox copy of pages from the book is reported to be worth as much as
TL 3-4 million.