Cops Find 200 ‘Irreplaceable’ Books—Including Originals by Galileo Galilei and Isaac Newton—Buried i

[Free Vulcan]

ROME—For the last three years, police in the U.K., Italy, and Romania have been trying to figure out what three men convicted of stealing $3.2 million worth of “irreplaceable” books did with them.

This week, they got their break after searching a home in Neamt in northeastern Romania where they lifted floorboards to find a cement tomb with all 200 books carefully wrapped and hidden.

The spectacular book heist in January 2017 could be a Mission Impossible plot line, with two of the thieves cutting a hole in the skylights of a postal transit warehouse in West London, and then balancing on rafters and upper bookshelves while they fished original first edition tomes written by Galileo, Isaac Newton, and Goya off the shelves, skirting the laser detectors on the floors.

https://www.thedailybeast.com/cops-find-200-irreplaceable-books-including-originals-by-galileo-galilei-and-isaac-newton-buried-in-romania

[Smokin Joe]

I find it wonderful that the books have been recovered. When you consider all of the possible misfortunes which might have occurred, it is good that these have survived and were put up relatively carefully in the first place.