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>> it's like a cross between the maltese falcon and an "indiana jones" movie. >> this intriguing document enters the shady world of the antiquities black market and surfaces in geneva. >> that's where the banks are. that's where the rich people are. it's the glitziest black market you've ever seen. >> stephen emmel, a specialist in ancient languages, arrives in switzerland to investigate. >> the egyptian government doesn't give permission to remove artifacts unless they've been part of an archaeological undertaking. so we assume that the manuscripts are legal. the whole feeling of the meeting ...

>> this intriguing document enters the shady world of the antiquities black market and surfaces in geneva. >> that's where the banks are. that's where the rich people are. it's the glitziest black market you've ever seen. >> stephen emmel, a specialist in ancient languages, arrives in switzerland to investigate. >> the egyptian government doesn't give permission to remove artifacts unless they've been part of an archaeological undertaking. so we assume that the manuscripts are legal. the whole feeling of the meeting was a bit clandestine. the egyptian man whom i understood to be the owner of t...

I had the impression that he might be the kind of person who would carry a gun. >> emmel and his colleagues are being pressured to decide their value even without knowing exactly what these pages are from. >> i began to see the name judas, that it was a work in coptic that i wasn't familiar with. we were interested in buying them. what was the price? and then came a bombshell. the man wanted $3 million. >> this is far more than they can afford. >> the egyptian man signaled to his associate to close up the boxes, and that was the end of the meeting. a year after i saw the coptic codex in geneva...

Very wired and keyed up. i had the impression that he might be the kind of person who would carry a gun. >> emmel and his colleagues are being pressured to decide their value even without knowing exactly what these pages are from. >> i began to see the name judas, that it was a work in coptic that i wasn't familiar with. we were interested in buying them. what was the price? and then came a bombshell. the man wanted $3 million. >> this is far more than they can afford. >> the egyptian man signaled to his associate to close up the boxes, and that was the end of the meeting. a year after i saw t...

Biblical text written in an ancient language. no one yet knows what it says. >> it's like a cross between the maltese falcon and an "indiana jones" movie. >> this intriguing document enters the shady world of the antiquities black market and surfaces in geneva. >> that's where the banks are. that's where the rich people are. it's the glitziest black market you've ever seen. >> stephen emmel, a specialist in ancient languages, arrives in switzerland to investigate. >> the egyptian government doesn't give permission to remove artifacts unless they've been part of an archaeological undertaking. s...