[Constitution Day]

I have no idea.
German archaeologists were not just interested in Iraq in the decades prior to WW2.
Heinrich Schliemann discovered Troy and other Germans discovered the Pergamon altar in what is now Turkey, in the late 1800's.

I do believe the gold from Troy is now in Moscow (taken by the Soviets), but the Pergamon is in its own museum in Berlin.

[Just mythoughts]

I agree they are not just interested in Iraq, the English went after the pyramids and Germany went after Babylon/Iraqi in general, as well as other places.

Trying to sort out all the hysteria about losing so much from that museum recently, when over the past centuries so much more has been looted from these countries and not a wimper about it.

I don't oppose looking gives credibility to written history, but am becoming more curious about what else has been found and is hidden somewhere.

[blam]

"Heinrich Schliemann discovered Troy."

The gold discovered at Troy is still the largest amount of gold ever excavated from an archaeological site. It was secretely taken to Germany by Schliemann and was known as Schliemann's gold. During WW2, the Russians took it to Moscow where it remains to this day.