Paris — The Louvre will remain closed for a second day running on Monday, management told AFP, after thieves stole crown jewels from the museum in Paris a day earlier. “The museum is not opening today,” a museum official told AFP. A sign at the museum told visitors the museum remained closed due to “exceptional circumstances”…
Authorities across Egypt are searching for a 3,000-year-old bracelet reported missing from a leading museum in Cairo. The rare gold band, adorned with spherical lapis lazuli beads, dates back to the reign of King Amenemope, a pharaoh of ancient Egypt’s 21st Dynasty who ruled from 993 to 984BC. The antiquities ministry said it had taken…
Smithsonian Institution says it will update exhibit to reflect all impeachments of US presidents following backlash. The parent organisation of a top-visited history museum in the United States has denied that political pressure played a role in the removal of a display about the impeachments of US President Donald Trump. The Smithsonian Institution, which runs the…
Three men were convicted Tuesday in the theft of hundreds of ancient gold coins from a German museum in 2022 and handed prison sentences ranging up to 11 years. A court in the southern city of Ingolstadt convicted the defendants of gang robbery over the museum heist, German news agency dpa reported. A fourth defendant…
