Maybe so, which begs the question of why not open the vaults to inspection and let this conspiracy theory die? Unless, of course, it is not a theory...
You sound like the Nazis insisting Jews were sitting on piles of gold. The Nazis opened the homes to inspection...
This conspiracy theory will never die; too many people havebuilt their identity around it.
Unless, of course, there is no vault.
The thing is, as far as I understand, these storage areas (”vaults”) are huge. I saw a special on the History channel I think last year where they were given special access to the storage areas. It’s like the catacombs down there, with no apparent precise organizational structure. (It is Italy)
So it’s not just a question of letting a few guys in on a weekend to take a poke around. Or going into some database and doing a keyword search for “menorah”. It would probably take months of searching with teams of people in every corner before such people were satisfied.
Besides again we have the historical fact the looting occurred wayyy before the current “vaults” existed, in the time between the current structure and when they were brought to Rome, you have at least 1,000 years. A lot of stuff can go missing in that time, especially if it had an economic value as well. After all, Rome was sacked how many times since?
With all that, is it really worth it? Because of a small possibility their stuff *might* be there? And what happens if (probably when) they don’t find it? Do accusations of further coverups and/or outright black market sales start flying? Or that the treasure funded the Crusades? Or even the construction of the Vatican itself? When does it end?