Priam's Treasure
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Priam's Treasure is a cache of gold and other artifacts discovered by classical archaeologists Frank Calvert and Heinrich Schliemann at Hisarlık on the northwestern coast of modern Turkey in the late
Part of Priam's treasure
Sophia Schliemann (née Engastromenou) wearing the "Jewels of Helen" excavated by her husband, Heinrich Schliemann, in Hisarlık (photograph taken ca. 1874)
The "big" diadem in modern exhibition
The "small" diadem
Soviet plunder
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During and after World War II, large-scale looting and seizure of cultural, industrial, and personal property took place in areas of Central and Eastern Europe at the hands of the Soviet armed forces.
Portrait of Gregory Cromwell, c. 1535–40, Hans Holbein the Younger. Initially looted from the Danzig Museum by the Nazis, it was later seized by the Soviets and is currently in the Pushkin Museum, Moscow.
A 2021 Russian stamp sheet featuring a 1934 self-portrait of Grabar and his paintings
A Changchun battery and plumbing shop looted by Soviet troops in 1946
Manchuria Sumitomo Metal Industry in Anshan, China, looted by USSR Army in 1946