Where is the Temple Menorah?

Orthodox Rabbis often claim it has been hidden somewhere the Vatican.  They are wrong.  

The Menorah of Herod’s Temple was taken to Rome by Titus after he sacked the temple in AD 70, and placed in the “Temple of Peace” where it remained for centuries.  The Vandals took it (or something else they thought was the Menorah) as plunder when they sacked Rome in 455.  It seems to have remained in Carthage for over nearly a century, after which it was taken back to Constantinople by Belisarius in 535, and perhaps returned to Jerusalem and placed in Justinian’s Nea Church.  (Procopius, Vandal War, 3.5.3, 4.9.5)  (This is assuming that what they thought was the Menorah was, in fact, the original Menorah of the first century.)  If so, it was almost certainly plundered by the Persians in their 614 sack of Jerusalem, and thereafter lost to history.

See Sean Kingsley God’s Gold, (2009)