The Crown of Aleppo

So who doesn’t like a treasure hunt. I saw a newspaper article describing a quest covering four continents that is attempting to locate the missing pages of one of the world's most important holy texts, the 1,000-year-old Hebrew Bible known as the Crown of Aleppo.
It has a history that reads like that of the Davinci Code; held it for ransom by the Crusaders, fire almost destroyed it and it was reputedly smuggled across Mideast borders hidden in a washing machine.
It belonged to a Jewish community in Jerusalem until it was seized by the Crusaders who captured and sacked the city in 1099. Ransomed, it made its way to Cairo, where it was used by the 12th-century Jewish philosopher Maimonides, who declared it the most accurate copy of the Old Testament.
When it finally came home to Israel in 1958, 196 pages were missing — about 40 percent of the total — and scholars have been looking for the pages like they are some kind of holy grail. It is, after all, considered to be the definitive edition of the Bible for Jewry worldwide.
In Aleppo, Syria, the manuscript resided in a synagogue's iron chest for centuries. Then in 1947, a Syrian mob burned down the synagogue to protest the resolution to grant Israel statehood.
Aleppo's Jews rescued the Codex before it was destroyed, but since then, many of them have moved to other countries around the world. It is believed that some of these people still have the missing pages, but there is fear that many have fallen into the hands of antique deallers.
Two fragments have already surfaced: a full page in 1982, and a smaller piece last year that had been carried for decades by a Brooklyn man, Sam Sabbagh, as a good-luck charm. Persistent rumours tell of more waiting to be found. Currently, the search is being carried out in North, South and Central America, Israel and England. Many believe that success in the recent effort is within reach.
In total, they are looking for most of the five Books of Moses, the Book of Esther, and the Book of Daniel." Each page is priceless.