The British Museum has dragged a former curator to court on Tuesday the museum has accused the ex-employee of stealing hundreds of artifacts and then putting them on sale online. Watch in for more details!

British museum drags Ex-Curator to court over stealing charges

Labour MP Bell Ribeiro-Addy has slammed the British Musem for refusing to return the stolen goods and artefacts to the country of their origin due to security reasons.

British Museum theft: Labour MP bats for returning stolen artefacts to their country of origin

After being stolen from Mexico in the late 1950s, the ancient Olmec artefact known as "Gateway to the Underworld," has been returned to its homeland. The piece, also referred to as the Monument 9 of Chalcatzingo arrived in Mexico on a Mexican Air Force plane on Friday (May 19), following a repatriation operation supervised by Mexican Foreign Minister Marcelo Ebrard.

Mexico's Olmec 'Portal of the Underworld' returns home after five decades in US

A Canadian tourist who stole mosaic tiles, parts of an amphora and a ceramics piece from the city of Pompeii 15 years ago, returned them saying they brought "bad luck".

Canadian woman returns artefacts saying they brought 'bad luck'

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British museum drags Ex-Curator to court over stealing charges

British Museum theft: Labour MP bats for returning stolen artefacts to their country of origin

Mexico's Olmec 'Portal of the Underworld' returns home after five decades in US

Canadian woman returns artefacts saying they brought 'bad luck'