The 2,000-year old menorah
Almost 1,950 years ago, in the year 70 AD, the Romans sacked the Temple of Jerusalem and absconded with the temple’s prized Menorah. “We know they brought it to Rome,” Colgate University classics professor Professor Robert Garland tells Reader’s Digest, because it’s “depicted on the frieze on the Arch of Titus in the Forum.” Some claim the menorah was housed at Rome’s Temple of Peace, which burned down in the year 191 after which the fate of the Menorah is uncertain.
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