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The "Codex Sassoon," an ancient Hebrew Bible written in the late 9th or early 10th century, was purchased Wednesday at Sotheby’s in New York City for $38.1 million.. For the record: The price ...

The ancient text, written in around 900 AD, is the most complete early copy of the Hebrew Bible. The auction house describes it as "the most significant early biblical manuscript in private hands." ...

JERUSALEM (AP) — One of the oldest surviving biblical manuscripts, a nearly complete 1,100-year-old Hebrew Bible, could soon be yours — for a cool $30 million. The Codex Sassoon, a leather ...

Girls learn ancient Hebrew in Samaria, a region in modern day Palestine, in the early 1900s. Photograph by AMERICAN COLONY PHOTOGRAPHERS, Nat Geo Image Collection. Hebrew never really died.

In a 2017 study in the American Journal of Human Genetics, researchers looked at the ancient DNA of five Canaanites who lived between 3,650 and 3,750 years ago and who were buried in Sidon, an ...

JERUSALEM — One of the oldest surviving biblical manuscripts, a nearly complete 1,100-year-old Hebrew Bible, could soon be yours — for a cool $30 million. The Codex Sassoon, a leather-bound ...