Tuesday, October 15, 2013

Gold cuneiform tablet update

A MESSY CASE: Dispute over ancient gold tablet goes to US court (AP). The tablet was excavated by German archaeologists, looted from a German Museum in 1945, and bought by a Holocaust survivor. Now the museum wants it back, but the heirs of the late most recent owner want it to go to a Holocaust museum.

I have been following the case, which has had a number of twists and turns, for a while. Background here and links. There's a photograph here and more photos in this video from June 2012.