Thieves Steal Indian Artifacts in Calif.
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Skilled burglars looted a Mojave Desert museum of its most prized possessions, including antique dolls and Native American artifacts on loan from local families.
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A state archivist was charged Monday with stealing hundreds of artifacts Â documents representing "the heritage of all Americans," according to the history buff who found some of them on eBay Â to pay his household bills.
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Precious paintings worth over 100 million Swiss francs (46.6 million pounds) were stolen from a Zurich museum in an armed robbery on Sunday, police said on Monday, the second dramatic art theft in the area in recent days.
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Federal authorities say that an antiquities dealer in California participated in the illegal importation and sale of antiquities.
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Tsunami survivors in India's tropical Andaman Islands say looters have plundered their homes and robbed them of precious possessions.
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Armed robbers stole paintings by Cezanne, Degas, van Gogh and Monet worth $163.2 million from a Zurich museum, police said Monday, calling it a "spectacular art robbery"
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An artifact stolen from an Egyptian temple in 1990 and held by Christie's auction house in New York for the last two years arrived in Egypt on Friday, an airport official said.
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The thieves escaped with more than Â£1m of jewellery.
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Armed robbers have stolen art worth $100 million, including works by Claude Monet and Vincent van Gogh, from a Zurich museum, police said Monday.
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Thieves make off with more than 200 items from Russia's prestigious Hermitage art museum.
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SANTA BARBARA, Calif. - Poison dart tips, a Brazilian woman's keepsakes laced with deadly frog secretions, were stolen from an office at the University of California, Santa Barbara...
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Art theft may conjure up images of a suave movie villain creeping through a dark gallery &#151; or last year's bold daylight robbery of Edvard Munch's "The Scream" from a Norway museum. Most art heists, however, are far more subtle, involving forged documents, fake prints or smuggled cultural artifacts that slowly make their way into the hands of private owners or museums.
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Three Mexican minors detained in California on suspicion of smuggling drugs stole a U.S. Border Patrol car while still wearing handcuffs and drove it back across the border to Mexico.
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Thieves in Argentina steal director Francis Ford Coppola's laptop, containing his latest film script.
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Eight bronze plaques worth up to Â£500,000 are stolen from the Victoria and Albert museum.
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Armed robbers on Sunday stole a version of Norwegian artist Edvard Munch&#39;s &quot;The Scream,&quot; regarded by many as his most important work and an icon of existentialist angst, from an Oslo museum.
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THIEVES stole two diamonds worth 11.5 million (Â£7.8 million) from a display case at an antiques and jewellery show near the Louvre Museum in Paris yesterday.