[RightWhale]

The Egyptian gold ended up in the temple in jerusalem where it was stolen by the babylonians who lost it to somebody, I forget who before it was recovered by the Arabs and lost once more to the mongol hordes who lost it to the franks who have it now. So Egypt needs to sue France to recover their property.

[Russian Sage]

The Egyptian gold ended up in the temple in jerusalem where it was stolen by the babylonians...

No, actually it had been recovered by the Egyptians long before that:

So Shishak king of Egypt came up against Jerusalem, and took the treasures of the house of the LORD and the treasures of the king's palace. He took everything; he even took the golden shields which Solomon had made.

2 Chr 12:9

[muawiyah]

More like the gold was mostly gone by the time the Babylonians got around to looting Jerusalem. There was, after all, an earlier Egyptian invasion.

No doubt any gold was taken back to Egypt.

A "trivial pursuit" question: How many times has the Temple in Jerusalem been desacreted, and or reduced to rubble? You have 30 seconds to think about it. Was it one time? Twice? Three times? Four times? Other?

Another one, and this will depend on your religion, how many times has the Messiah been manifest? A little Bible knowledge would help for this one, but no use of the concordance. Was it once? Twice? Three times? Kind of regularly every couple of dozen years? I don't know.

Thinking of all that gold in all those wagons behind all those donkeys trudging across the desert leads to a free flow of consciencousness.

[DLfromthedesert]

LOL!!This doctor I work with is from India, and she told us about how the Arabs invaded India and pillaged the country. It's time for the Indian people everywhere to demand compensation from every Arab on the earth, living or dead.