Copper, Gold and Treasure (Mark Treasure Mysteries Book 5)
Philip the Good, who was Duke of Burgundy at the time the altarpiece was created, is likely one of the characters on horseback. The panel was stolen in and has never been found. In November , it was in the possession of the Habsburg royal family who had just been deposed after the empire that they ruled, Austria-Hungary, found itself on the losing side of World War I. The family deposited the pink gem in a bank vault in Switzerland, entrusting it to an Austrian lawyer named Bruno Steiner, who was supposed to help the deposed royal family sell it and other royal jewels, Brook-Shepherd wrote in his book.
It's unclear what happened next. A news report published in indicates that Steiner was arrested, charged with fraud and acquitted. It's possible that the Florentine Diamond was recut sometime after World War I and is now a series of smaller diamonds. The painting, in the Palazzo Vecchio the town hall in Florence , disappeared in , when the hall was remodelled by painter and architect Giorgio Vasari. In , a team of art experts announced they had discovered evidence that the mural was not stolen and that another mural by Giorgio Vasari had simply been painted over da Vinci's mural.
However, the results were never confirmed and the research was put on indefinite hold in September The Second Temple was destroyed, the Roman army carrying its treasures back to Rome. Those treasures included the temple's menorah, a lampstand with six branches. The Arch of Titus, located in Rome, includes a scene depicting the menorah being carried to Rome; in the scene, the menorah appears as a massive object, almost as big as the soldiers carrying it.
The fate of the menorah after it arrived in Rome is unclear. Some people speculate that it could still be somewhere in Rome, waiting to be found. Alamy Copper Scroll treasures Perhaps the most unusual Dead Sea Scroll discovered in the Qumran caves is a text engraved on a sheet of copper that discusses the location of a vast amount of hidden treasure. This Copper Scroll, as it is called, is in a museum in Jordan.
Whether the ancient writer of the scroll was describing a real or legendary treasure is a source of debate among scholars.
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At the time the scroll was written, the Roman army was in the process of defeating Jewish groups that were rebelling against Roman rule; the Roman army had taken Jerusalem and destroyed the Second Temple, which was the most important, surviving religious site for the Jewish people. Some scholars have speculated that the treasures referred to in the Copper Scroll could be real treasures that were hidden before the Roman army destroyed the temple.
Other scholars have argued that the amount of treasure discussed in the Copper Scroll is so vast that it must be the stuff of legend. They included three works by the Dutch painter Rembrandt and five works by the French artist Edgar Degas. The identity of the thieves is unknown and the artwork has never been recovered.
Where the fossils are located today is unknown. Some have speculated that they were lost at sea while being transported to the United States; others think they may actually be located under a parking lot in China. It's possible that the story is a legend and, in fact, there was no gold sunk into the lake; however, some researchers have noted that the lake has poor visibility and a vast amount of logs and debris that make attempts to locate gold through diving both difficult and dangerous.
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Some divers have been killed trying to find gold in the lake's waters. The identity of the person being drawn and the exact date when Raphael drew it are both unknown. Frank was a Nazi official who was put in charge of occupied Poland, where he oversaw numerous war crimes and the murder of Poland's Jews. After World War II, he was put on trial, sentenced to death and executed.
The location of the Raphael painting that was in his chalet is unknown.
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These artifacts included jewels worn by the kings of Poland, works of art and other mementos. By , Poland had ceased to exist as an independent state, having been divided up among the various other powers in the region. The royal casket would eventually fall victim to another group of invaders — it was seized by Nazi Germany after they invaded Poland in September Its contents are now lost. It may be a sequel to "Love's Labour's Lost," a comedy that Shakespeare wrote in the s. Documents in the s and s indicate that "Love's Labou's Won" was published by and was still being sold in , although no surviving copies have been found, William Carroll, an English professor at Boston University, wrote in the preface to a republished edition of "Love's Labour's Lost" Cambridge University Press, Some scholars believe that all records of "Love Labour's Won" refer to another play by Shakespeare called "Much Ado About Nothing," which is well known and performed today.
However, many scholars believe that some of these gospels were initially written in the second half of the first century A. This has led to many questions — do any copies survive from the first century A. If so, how could we determine their date? If no copies survive from the first century A. In , scholars reported that they had found a fragment of the Gospel of Mark within the remains of a mummy mask, which they believe date to the first century. A combination of carbon dating, the style of the handwriting on the fragments and a study of the other documents found in the mask, provided scholars with the first-century date.
However, this text has yet to be published. Monuments Men Foundation Michelangelo's Mask of a Faun This marble "mask of a Faun" — a faun being a half-human, half-goat mythological creature — has been attributed to the Italian artist Michelangelo di Lodovico Buonarroti Simoni lived A. Soldiers from the German army's th division that was attached to the 10th German Army, the Monument's Men Foundation notes on its website. The soldiers stole the mask sometime between Aug. The mask's present location is unknown. Alamy Caravaggio's Nativity with St.
Lawrence The "Nativity with St. Lawrence" is a painting created in by the Italian painter Michelangelo Merisi da Caravaggio lived A. It shows the birth of Christ, with the infant Jesus lying on a haystack, a scene that highlights the poverty of his birth, scholars say. Beach and Shallow Water.
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