George Osborne has insisted the British Museum was the “victim of an inside job” following the theft of almost 2,000 artefacts. The institution has recovered around 350 of the items dating from the 15th Century BC to the 19th Century AD which
The Louvre Museum in Paris evacuated all visitors and employees out of concern for a terrorist attack. Louvre facilities sounded alarms and shepherded individuals out of the museum Saturday morning after receiving a written threat. As people quickly fled, police surrounded the
The beleaguered British Museum has launched a website in a bid to recover around 2,000 antiquities that have been stolen. The site, which went live at 1pm today, is dedicated to the recovery of the precious historical items, the news of the
A Danish artist has been ordered to repay a museum after running off with its money upon being commissioned to create a piece of artwork but instead submitted two empty canvases titled “Take the Money and Run.” In 2021, Jens Haaning was
Art detective reveals recovered Van Gogh painting Art detective Arthur Brand retrieved a Van Gogh painting that had gone missing over three years ago. Security footage shows the heist as it happened. (SOURCE: Reuters/Netherlands Police/Groninger Museum/Arthur Brand) Dutch police this week retrieved
Tens of thousands of Chinese social media users have backed calls from the country’s state media to have its artefacts kept in the British Museum returned. The hashtag “The British Museum please return Chinese antiquities” topped the search chart of Weibo, the
Some of the treasures that the British Museum fear have been stolen have started to be recovered. Chairman of the famous UK museum George Osborne confirmed that some of the items believed to be stolen have been brought back into possession of
Hartwig Fischer, the now-former director of the British Museum, announced his resignation Friday. Fischer’s resignation follows an investigation into the disappearance of hundreds of priceless artifacts from the museum. A whistleblower noted that numerous suspicious items appeared on eBay in 2021, though
The man accused of stealing priceless artefacts from the British museum is a senior curator of 30 years, according to The Telegraph. Peter Higgs, who lost his job as the curator of Mediterranean cultures earlier this year, is a leading expert on
Priceless artefacts lifted from the British Museum may have already been destroyed and shipped thousands of miles away, experts fear. Museum chiefs sacked an employee this week after thousands of items were revealed to have gone missing from the institution’s academic storage