LONDON: Around 2,000 artefacts including gold jewellery and gems had been stolen from the British Museum over a long period of time, but recovery efforts were already underway, the museum's chair George Osborne said on Saturday (Aug 26). The museum, one of London's most popular attractions whose treasures
LONDON: Around 2,000 artefacts including gold jewellery and gems had been stolen from the British Museum over a long period of time, but recovery efforts were already underway, the museum's chair George Osborne said on Saturday .
Osborne, a former British finance minister, told BBC radio that not all of the museum's collection was properly catalogued or registered, a situation not unique among large institutions whose collections had been amassed over hundreds of years. "We've already started to recover some of the stolen items," he added, without giving any details of what had been recovered or how.
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