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Eight marvelous pages herald the discovery of the New World. It’s the account Christopher Columbus shared with the treasurer of Kings Ferdinand of Aragon and…
U.S. Officials return rare Christopher Columbus letter to Italy after seven year long inquiry. It had been taken from a Venice museum.
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The document is among several missing copies of the letter to be recovered from the U.S. in recent years
Columbus wrote the letter to King Ferdinand of Spain in 1493 about his findings after the ‘discovery’ of the Americas
A rare copy of a letter from Columbus to Spain's royals detailing his voyage vanished from a Venice museum in the 1980s. U.S. authorities have repatriated it to Rome after a yearslong investigation.