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The British Museum announced that items from its collection were found to be “missing, stolen or damaged” and an unnamed member of staff has…

The internationally celebrated British Museum is in crisis as thousands of ancient pieces may have been sold at knock-down prices or melted down.

The museum said last week that items from its collection were "missing, stolen or damaged" and an unnamed staff member had been sacked. Reports now say close to 2,000 items were taken.

Dr Ittai Gradel, an expert in Roman antiquities, contacted the museum after spotting items for sale online that he had seen in museum catalogues in February 2021.

An antiquities dealer contacted the museum with concerns in 2021, but the institution swiftly closed the case, according to documents seen by The New York Times.

A mystery person used a COVID lockdown to uncover a slow drip of theft from the museum’s antiquities collection.

More than 1,500 objects from the British Museum are believed to have been stolen or destroyed by a single thief who went undetected for years, The Telegraph can disclose.

A curator at the British Museum, sacked after it was discovered artefacts had been stolen, was born and raised in Stevenage.

A mystery person used a COVID lockdown to uncover a slow drip of theft from the museum’s antiquities collection.

Since the stolen items were reported, a member staff was dismissed. The museum also said that they will launch a program to locate the objects. | Trending