. . . asking to search Vatican storerooms for artifacts such as the huge golden menorah that stood in the Temple in Jerusalem 2,000 years ago.
Didn't the Vandals take that from Rome when they sacked it in 410?
(Anybody?)
Gibbon says that the Vandals took it and that it was lost at sea in the voyage to Carthage.
Gibbon says so, and that it was lost at sea on the voyage to Carthage.