Stolen 400-year-old Bible returns to the US after being missing for decades

A 400-year-old Bible -- one of 321 rare items stolen from the Carnegie Library of Pittsburgh in the 1990s -- has been returned after a transoceanic journey

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"This Bible is more than a piece of evidence in a case. It is a priceless artifact of religious significance to people of many faiths," said Allegheny County District Attorney Stephen Zappala at a news conference Thursday. The rare Geneva Bible was discovered in the Netherlands in the possession of Jeremy Dupertuis Bangs, the director of the Leiden American Pilgrim Museum, who had acquired the book for the museum.

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