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BBC News
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A gang of intruders has broken into a museum in Paris and inflicted serious damage on a painting by Impressionist artist Claude Monet.
Four or five people were caught on camera breaking into the Musee d'Orsay via a back door early on Sunday.
An alar..
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Yahoo News
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A group of burglars stole a massive block of gold worth over $2 million from a Japanese museum in a heist that police said could have been prevented if only the curators hadn't left the showcases wide open.
The Ohashi Collection Kan museum in Takaya..
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FOX News
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Deep in the dusty, unlit corridors of Kenya's national museum, locked away in a plain-looking cabinet, is one of mankind's oldest relics: Turkana Boy, as he is known, the most complete skeleton of a prehistoric human ever found...
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CNN
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Police in Switzerland have recovered artworks stolen earlier this month in a daring heist at a Zurich museum, Geneva police said Tuesday. The police could not say whether some or all of the four Impressionist masterpieces were recovered. A news conference..
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CNN
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Museum-goers gasped at the well-preserved mummy of an Inca maiden that is on display for the first time, a serene gaze etched on her face hundreds of years ago when she was sacrificed and froze to death in the Andes. Hundreds of people packed a museum in..
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SF Gate
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Stolen again. Last time, it was a museum curator who staged a Hollywood-worthy theft of Impressionist paintings by Monet and Sisley before landing in a French prison. This time, the five masked gunmen who snatched the canvases are still at large.
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CNN
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The Getty Museum has reached a compromise with Italy after a bitter dispute over antiquities in its collection that Rome says were looted, the Italian Culture Ministry said in a statement on Wednesday. The museum will return 40 artifacts to Italy, fewer t..
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CNN
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About 4,000 artifacts seized by border police in Denmark have been returned to the National Museum of Afghanistan, the Danish prime minister said Thursday during a visit to the Afghan capital, Kabul.
The Afghan archaeological artifacts -- including coi..
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CNN
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Egypt's antiquities chief says if persuasion doesn't work, he will fight for an ancient bust of Nefertiti that a Berlin museum maintains is too fragile to ever travel.
Zahi Hawass rattled world museums last week with requests to hand over ancient Egypt..
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BBC News
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The Vatican's envoy to Israel has attended the annual Holocaust remembrance event in Jerusalem after earlier threatening not to be present.
Archbishop Antonio Franco was angered by a caption in the Yad Vashem Holocaust museum describing the actions of..
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USA Today
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A region of Japan devastated by a 1995 earthquake donated $200,000 to the New Orleans Museum of Art for programs to help children cope with the post-Hurricane Katrina devastation.
The donation — celebrated Wednesday with a troupe of Japanese street p..
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BBC News
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A spectacular golden wreath dating back to the 4th Century BC is due to go on display at the National Archaeology Museum in Greece.
The Macedonian wreath was returned to Athens at the weekend by the Getty Museum in Los Angeles.
Greece fought for 10..
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CNN
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The bones of 14 Maori dating back at least to the mid-19th century are to be returned by a museum in the United States to New Zealand, media reported on Friday.
The Field Museum of Natural History in Chicago has told the visiting New Zealand Prime Mini..
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