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From the Treasure of Villena to the French Crown Jewels: The lucrative business of stealing pieces of history
1+ week, 6+ hour ago (330+ words) The spectacular rise in the price of gold over the past nine years has triggered a wave of increasingly violent heists at European museums, which are struggling to protect themselves Museum robberies are an old business. And, since 2023, the rise…...
Treasure of Villena Stolen
2+ week, 19+ hour ago (388+ words) A heist at the Villena Museum in Spain saw the thieves getting away with the Treasure of Villena, a Bronze Age collection of gold artifacts described as the “most important prehistoric trove in Europe.” The robbery was just the latest…...
Ancient gold treasures stolen from museum in "super-fast" raid
2+ week, 2+ day ago (495+ words) by Renaissance artist Antonello da Messina were stolen from a museum in Sicily, Italy's culture ministry...
Thieves Steal 3,000-Year-Old Treasure in a 'Super-Professional' Museum Heist That Took Only Four Minutes
1+ week, 5+ day ago (515+ words) A group of thieves has raided the Spanish museum housing the Treasure of Villena, one of Europe’s most impressive surviving collections of Bronze Age gold and other precious artifacts. Around 5:20 a.m. on August 27, alarms sounded at the Museum of Villena…...
Trash or Treasure: Antique 'china chariot' heirloom fetches $600
3+ week, 2+ day ago (339+ words) “These pictures are of a china chariot that my grandparents brought to New York from Europe in the early 20th century,” wrote Alice Horning to the column asking for advice and an appraisal. “It may have come from Hungary. I don't…...
America’s third-wealthiest city returns 48 ancient treasures to an African country after FBI finds they were illegally trafficked into the US
3+ week, 31+ min ago (699+ words) Los Angeles, ranked America’s third-wealthiest urban centre by millionaire population, has hosted the return of 48 ancient artefacts to Egypt after an FBI investigation found that the objects had been illegally trafficked into the United States. The Federal Bureau of Investigation…...
Riches beneath the river: Local scuba divers return stolen wallet to Lehigh Valley man
2+ week, 1+ day ago (467+ words) Mostly sunny and pleasant with low humidity; the pick day of the forecast!. Mostly clear and comfortable overnight; good sleeping weather! Who knew that "treasures untold" could be found at the bottom of our very own Lehigh River? A pair…...
Actors Went Looking for Fictional Treasure and Found Rare Cavalry Armour Instead
4+ day, 21+ hour ago (778+ words) They entered the muddy moat looking for the kind of treasure that belonged in a film script. Instead, beneath layers of dark silt at a historic palace in Poland, the searchers encountered something very real: a 19th-century cavalry cuirass that…...
Los Angeles returns 48 ancient treasures to an African country after FBI finds they were illegally trafficked into the US
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Divers catch suspected serial thief at Gozo site
1+ week, 4+ day ago (340+ words) A suspected serial thief targeting scuba divers’ vehicles on the Maltese island of Gozo has been caught after a group of divers chased and detained him mid-crime. The Gozo Tourism Association (GTA) noted that the perpetrator was suspected in a…...