The Day - Buried History: Douglas Lane site reveals some of the region's stories from long ago
Two lonely gravestones stand in the corner of a large grassy field on the corner of Douglas Lane and Route 85.
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Two lonely gravestones stand in the corner of a large grassy field on the corner of Douglas Lane and Route 85.
When Hitler's armies occupied Italy in 1943, they also seized control of mankind's greatest cultural treasures. As they had done throughout Europe, the Nazis could now plunder the masterpieces of the Renaissance, the treasures of the Vatican, and the antiquities of the Roman Empire. On the eve of the Allied invasion, General Dwight Eisenhower empowered a new kind of soldier to protect these historic riches. In May 1944 two unlikely American heroes--artist Deane Keller and scholar Fred Hartt--embarked from Naples on the treasure hunt of a lifetime, tracking billions of dollars of missing art,...