Ancient treasure rises from Berlin rubble

AFP via Google News ^ | Tuesday, August 3, 2010 | Francis Curta

[SunkenCiv]

A century after it was first discovered in the Syrian desert and nearly 70 years after its bombed and broken shards were dumped into crates and buried anew in the cellars of Berlin's Pergamon Museum, the story of its salvation is itself an unlikely tale. "We have reconstructed more than 90 percent of the artifacts from the Tell Halaf museum," said German archaeologist and restoration manager Lutz Martin, 56. "Of the 27,000 pieces, there are only 2,000 left over" that could not be fitted back, he added... "The whole museum reached temperatures of over 1,000 degrees (centigrade) and then it was suddenly cooled down with water and this put severe stress on the stones which just exploded," said Kirsten Drueppel, an expert at Berlin's Technical University's department of mineralogy involved in the project... Some pieces were as small as a fingernail, others weighed one and a half tonnes. One of the statues, a goddess, was broken into 1,800 pieces.

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[bannie]

Thank you for the ping!

I’m waiting to find out where The Amber Room is, but this is exciting!

[bunkerhill7]

Achhhh! Das ist der BerlinerstrassenPergamonisterrvomMuseum
bombenheistnspeilengut!

[fuzzybutt]

This is what this website said about the fate of the Amber Room. Link below.

After the war, the German official in charge of the amber shipment said the crates were in a castle that burned down in an air raid. A Soviet investigator found a charred fragment from the room. Others think the palace sank to the bottom of the Baltic Sea in a torpedoed steamer or was stashed in an abandoned mine in Thuringia.

http://www.usnews.com/usnews/doubleissue/mysteries/amber.htm

[taxcontrol]

Nomination for the ultimate jigsaw puzzle.

[Doulos1]

Amber room, I think it was dismantled and shipped to Moscow for the Politburo to sit in , as they smoke their Cubans.

[SunkenCiv]

It might have gone faster using a computer, definitely would have been much less boring, and probably less expensive.

[SunkenCiv]

"Amber Room" site:freerepublic.com

[SunkenCiv]

Oh for cryin’ out loud.

[SunkenCiv]

"Amber Room" site:freerepublic.com

Google

[Captain Rhino]

Asked why the museum had kept the broken debris so long in its cellars, Martin said: "You know archaeologists never throw anything away".

Brilliant work. Thanks for your patience, Professor Martin.

[Captain Rhino]

Asked why the museum had kept the broken debris so long in its cellars, Martin said: "You know archaeologists never throw anything away".

Brilliant work. Thanks for your patience, Professor Martin.

[Captain Rhino]

Pardon the double post. Refresh is a little slow tonight.

[SunkenCiv]

I think I heard that in an old VW commercial.

[PghBaldy]

Here is a link from the article which has more pictures: http://heritage-key.com/blogs/ann/real-archaeological-puzzle-germans-reassemble-ancient-sculptures-destroyed-wwii Thanks to SunkenCiv and all who add to this “godsgravesglyphs” keyword, the consistently most interesting set of articles on the ‘net.

[bannie]

Thank you!!! I understand that “they’re” trying to recreate it. I’d rather that they FIND the original...It’s the mystery.

[americanophile]

Interesting.

[SunkenCiv]

Too bad the Germans started a war that killed 80 million people worldwide, else this might not have happened. ;’)

[Bubba Ho-Tep]

I’d rather that they FIND the original...It’s the mystery.

It's pretty definite that, apart from a few pieces, it was destroyed by fire when the Red Army overran Konigsberg. Soviet investigators determined as much soon after the war. Like the "HItler escaped" meme (which they also knew was a lie), it was kept alive by Stalin as a way to dig at the West and just took on a life of its own.