Police have so far interviewed an unnamed man over the missing artefacts.
London’s British Museum casts itself as a trusted custodian of priceless artefacts from around the world.
The museum, one of London’s most popular attractions whose treasures include the Rosetta Stone, an ancient Egyptian relic inscribed with hieroglyphs and other texts, said last week a member of staff had been dismissed after items dating from the 15th century BC to the 19th century AD had been taken from a storeroom.
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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