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!

UK: British Museum drags ex-curator to court over stealing charges, he denies them!

British Museum, which is on a quest to recover about 2,000 missing artefacts, launched a public hotline on Tuesday (September 26) and requested assistance from the public in getting back the lost treasure, media reports said.

Treasure hunt: British Museum launches hotline, asks people to help find missing artefacts

Gold jewelry, gems, semi-precious stones, and glass artifacts, some dating as far back as the 15th century BC, were allegedly stolen from the British Museum over an undisclosed period of time by a now-former employee, the museum alleges.

British museum launches investigation into stolen ancient artifacts

The Netherlands has returned 343 pre-Hispanic era ceramics to Panama in what is being considered to be the “largest repatriation of archaeological pieces in history”.

'Largest repatriation in history': Netherlands returns over 300 ancient artifacts to Panama

A 21-year-old Texas man, Brian Hernandez was accused of breaking into the Dallas Museum of Art on Wednesday night and destroying art worth millions of dollars because he was upset with his girlfriend,as reported by Oxygen true crime.

Man destroys $5 million worth of artifacts at Dallas Museum of Art because he was 'Mad at his girl'

Remains of Shipwrecks are often hard to find. Especially if the ship has sunk hundreds of years ago. There's no telling where exactly the ship may be lying at the bottom of the sea.

1700-year-old Roman shipwreck reveals perfectly preserved artifacts

Two Benin bronzes were returned on Saturday to a traditional palace in Nigeria, more than a century after they were pillaged by British troops, raising hopes that thousands more artefacts could finally be returned to their ancestral home.

Nigeria's looted Benin bronzes returned, more than a century later

A Cambridge faculty, a French museum and a Scottish college all returned artifacts looted from West Africa, with activists and officers hailing a possible turning level within the years-long battle to make sure Europe’s reckoning on race prolonged to restitution of what it plundered.

Europe returns colonial-era looted African artwork

Nearly 3,000 people who died from the terrorist attacks on Sept. 11, 2001 aren't being forgotten. Their stories endure at the 9/11 Memorial & Museum, where personal artifacts help memorialize some of those who perished.

9/11 artifacts share 'pieces of truth'

Authorities in Italy have recovered nearly 800 stolen archaeological artefacts that cost nearly 11 million euros from a Belgian collector. Pieces of "exceptional rarity and inestimable value", the artefacts date back as far as the sixth century BC and include pieces such as stelae, amphorae and other similar works.

Theft of centuries: 800 stolen archaeological artifacts recovered in Italy

A silk shoe that once belonged to Marie Antoinette, the last Queen of France who was guillotined as part of the French Revolution, will be auctioned in Versailles this weekend with an estimated starting price of 10,000 euros ($11,832).

Marie Antoinette's silk shoe goes up for sale in Versailles

The Supreme Court on Monday dismissed two petitions seeking the preservation of artifacts recovered from Ayodhya during excavation at Ram Janmabhoomi and for the remains left behind by the Archaeological Survey of India (ASI).

SC dismisses plea seeking preservation of artifacts recovered from Ayodhya, imposes fine

The Peruvian government displayed on Thursday 21 cultural artifacts returned to embassies in Argentina, Canada, Ecuador and Brazil.

Peru officials hail return of cultural artifacts

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