U.S. repatriates a stolen Christopher Columbus letter to Italy : NPR

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.

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