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GIL ZOHAR
Jerusalem Post
10-13-2006
Headline: Buried treasure
Byline: GIL ZOHAR
Edition; In Jerusalem
Section: Features
Page: 08

Friday, October 13, 2006 -- What happened to the 50 tons of gold, silver and sacred treasures looted from Herod's Temple following the Roman legionnaires' sack of Jerusalem on Tisha Be'av in the year 70 CE?

The Arch of Titus in Rome, erected shortly after the death of Titus who reigned as emperor from 79 to 81, clearly depicts Roman soldiers bearing on their shoulders the golden candelabrum, silver trumpets and bejeweled Table of the Divine Presence which the Roman ...

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