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4 days ago · British Museum gems for sale on eBay - how a theft was exposed. Published27 May 2024, 05:42 BST. Katie Razzall, Larissa Kennelly and Darin Graham. BBC News. In 2020, Danish antiquities dealer Dr ...
2 days ago · The Extent of the Loss. Since the revelations in August 2023, the British Museum has reported over 1,800 missing items. These include artifacts spanning from ancient times to the 19th century, such as gold jewelry, semi-precious stones, and glass gems. Some of the missing pieces have already been recovered, with around 600 items returned to the ...
3 days ago · It is alleged that the museum employee earned around £100,000 ($127,000) from selling objects over the course of a decade. He mainly sold items on eBay to approximately 45 buyers, according to ...
4 days ago · The British Museum estimates that out of 1,500 items it believes were stolen or missing, 626 have so far been recovered and 100 more have been found but not yet returned
2 days ago · A user called Sultan1966, who is alleged to be Higgs, has been selling items suspected to be the museum’s goods. One piece of Roman jewellery, reportedly worth £50,000, was offered for a starting price of just £40. The FBI have begun investigating the sale of these suspected items to US buyers. One buyer from New Orleans told the BBC that ...
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4 days ago · Dalya Alberge and Fiona Parker 27 May 2024 • 5:17pm. The museum is trying to recover the missing objects but is hampered by incomplete records Credit: Vuk Valcic/Alamy. The British Museum has ...
2 days ago · British Museum, in London, comprehensive national museum with particularly outstanding holdings in archaeology and ethnography. It is located in the Bloomsbury district of the borough of Camden. The Reading Room in the British Museum, London. Explore Bloomsbury's British Museum, home to the Elgin Marbles and the Rosetta Stone, in London.
