Priam’s Treasure dates back to the early Bronze Age
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PRIAM’S TREASURE
Pushkin State Museum of Fine Arts, Moscow
Oddly, this trove of golden jewellery and weaponry did not originate in either of the two places that have laid claim to it. The treasure was discovered in 1873, in a site rumoured to be the remnants of the great city of Troy – so its discoverer, Heinrich Schliemann, named the find after Troy’s king, Priam. He took his haul back to Germany but, in World War II, the Soviets looted the lot. Russia contends that it should keep the treasure, despite a treaty that promises to return stolen artefacts, as compensation for the destruction of Soviet cities by Germany in the war.
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