The Codex Sassoon will go up for auction in New York City in May and is expected to become the most valuable historical document ever sold at auction.

He has retired to Highland Beach and his reason for talking has to do with my second mystery, the 13 carpet pages of the Cairo codex.

The Codex Sassoon, believed to be over 1,000 years old, could fetch up to $50 million at an auction handled by Sotheby's.

The Codex Sassoon forms something of a vaunted Biblical trinity alongside the Aleppo Codex, which was created around 930 C.E. but is missing 40 percent of its pages, and the Leningrad Codex, which ...

This all means the Codex Sassoon is a “crucial bridge” for Jewish biblical history to the Dead Sea Scrolls, and “foundational to civilization itself,” as Sotheby’s said on its website.

It is substantially more complete than the Aleppo Codex and older than the Leningrad Codex, two other famous early Hebrew Bibles, Sotheby’s said.