Religious texts

A Hebrew Bible more than 1,000 years old sold for $38.1 million in New York on May17, setting a record for the most valuable manuscript ever sold at auction.

The ritual is always the same. Mario Prushi carefully washes his hands and face before kissing and pressing one of the world's smallest Qurans to his forehead.

For generations, the postage stamp-sized book has been passed down in his family, surviving wars and one of the world's most fanatical "godless regimes."

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 ancient city of Sogmatar in the southeastern province of Şanlıurfa, known as the "City of Prophets," attracts local and international tourists with its historical wells, rock tombs and reliefs.

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If the “non-believer” Yazidi women weren’t being mistreated inhumanely enough, the dehumanization of the whole ordeal has moved on to yet another level. There is now a contest amongst ISIS terrorists that anyone supremely well-versed in the Quran will receive a Yazidi female sex slave as a prize.