One of the greatest joys that I have working on my true
stories of treasure tales are the amazing stories involved.
During the closing years of World War II, a holocaust
survivor named Riven Flamenbaum found an amazing treasure…or was presented an
amazing treasure in Germany. He claimed that a Russian Soldier presented him
with a small golden tablet, about the size of a credit card.
While members of the family remember hearing the story differently, Riven was either given this object by a soldier after losing his family during the war or he traded cigarettes for this item.
This 9.5 gram tablet was excavated by German archaeologists
from the Ishtar Temple in present day Iraq. Experts state the tablet is from
around 1230 B.C. during the reign of King Tukulti-Ninura I of Assyria. It was
on display in Berlin in 1934 but was later put in storage and disappeared
during the war.
Riven reportedly showed this tablet to Christie’s auction
house in 1954 but that it was declared a fake. From that point on, Mr.
Flamenbaum only stored this item keeping it hidden away in a safety deposit
box. The current value of this tablet is reported to be $10 million.
The estate of Riven Flamenbaum is now fighting for the right
to keep this item in New York State’s Court of Appeals.
NOTE: The Court of Appeals has come back with a decision.
This tablet must be returned to Berlin’s Vorderasiatisches Museum as this item
is considered an item looted during the war and rightfully belongs to the
museum.
http://news.yahoo.com/berlin-museum-seeks-return-ancient-gold-tablet-051519395.html
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