WilliamBoyd8
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Only posted here because the article mentions The Man.
From The Associated Press:
https://www.yahoo.com/news/m/9ae32a5d-df56-38dc-a7b4-d9c86843bb5e/ss_us-museum-returns-ancient.html
BERLIN ? An ancient artifact lost in the chaos of World War II. An American scientist hunting for Nazi secret weapons. An archaeologist who dug into dusty archives to prove a hunch.
What sounds like the plot of an Indiana Jones movie is turning into a happy end for a German museum that feared it had lost a treasured stone tablet from ancient Egypt.
Research showed a Dutch-American scientist, Samuel Abraham Goudsmit, had purchased the stele in 1945 from a private collector in Germany and bequeathed it to the Michigan museum, the foundation said.
Goudsmit was the scientific head of a secret U.S. army mission investigating Nazi Germany?s efforts to build a nuclear bomb, as well as an enthusiastic amateur archaeologist.
The Kelsey Museum agreed to return the stele, which will be displayed in Berlin from next month.
From The Associated Press:
https://www.yahoo.com/news/m/9ae32a5d-df56-38dc-a7b4-d9c86843bb5e/ss_us-museum-returns-ancient.html
BERLIN ? An ancient artifact lost in the chaos of World War II. An American scientist hunting for Nazi secret weapons. An archaeologist who dug into dusty archives to prove a hunch.
What sounds like the plot of an Indiana Jones movie is turning into a happy end for a German museum that feared it had lost a treasured stone tablet from ancient Egypt.
Research showed a Dutch-American scientist, Samuel Abraham Goudsmit, had purchased the stele in 1945 from a private collector in Germany and bequeathed it to the Michigan museum, the foundation said.
Goudsmit was the scientific head of a secret U.S. army mission investigating Nazi Germany?s efforts to build a nuclear bomb, as well as an enthusiastic amateur archaeologist.
The Kelsey Museum agreed to return the stele, which will be displayed in Berlin from next month.