The hunt for Priam's treasure: a Berlin prehistorian conducts an exhaustive search for Schliemann's celebrated Trojan gold

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Russia has finally admitted that the treasure collected by Heinrich Schliemann during his excavation of Troy, referred to as 'Priam's Treasure,' is in Moscow. The treasure disappeared from Berlin at the end of World War II, and Klaus Goldmann, curator at Berlin's Museum for Pre- and Early History, has been searching for the artifacts, along with other artworks lost after the war, for over 20 years. Russia and Germany have recently agreed to establish a joint commission to deal with art objects taken by both sides during and after the war.

Investigations, Antiquities, Troy (Ancient city), Collections and collecting, Schliemann, Heinrich, Goldmann, Klaus

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Who owns the spoils of war?

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The former Soviet Union and Germany agreed in 1990 to exchange all works stolen from from either country during World War II. Later, Russia backed out when it realized that more art would flow from Russia back to Germany than vice versa. The Russians argued that with Hitler's defeat there was no German state and that the Soviet Union, as the legitimate governing authority in its occupation zone, had the right to remove cultural property. This has become an issue of contention between the two nations.

Political aspects, Booty (International law)

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Limits of world law

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Francis Leiber, a German-American soldier and philosopher and Nicholas Roerich, a Russian painter and mystic, wrote laws to bar warring nations from destroying each others cultural treasures. Laws to prevent destruction of cultural treasures have been made since 1758. In spite of many laws and their further amendments, not much has been achieved in preventing destruction of cultural wealth, as is evident from the recent events in places such as Angkor and Bosnia.

Laws, regulations and rules, Cultural property, Protection of, Cultural property protection

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