Amateur Treasure Hunters Discover Infamous Stolen Room Worth Over $500 Million

Storm on the Sea of Galilee

This Rembrandt painting was created in 1633 for the Gardner Museum of Boston. It was stolen from the same museum in 1990, and it hasn’t been seen since. Although the painting has gone through several appraisals, it’s cost could never be determined, and in some cases, the cost was set too high for the painting to even be considered sellable. Whatever these thieves got in payment for this painting was probably a fraction of its actual worth. It was stolen along with this next piece...

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