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The curious tale of the British Museum's disappearing collection

Category: News & Politics
Duration: 00:12:47
Publish Date: 2023-08-27 19:01:00
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Who robbed the British Museum? And how did they get away with it for so long? The news that the world’s largest, and arguably most prestigious, history museum was robbed made global headlines.

It’s no wonder. It’s home to, among other precious artefacts, the Rosetta Stone. As in, the stone that was originally discovered by Napoleon’s soldiers, and later taught the world, for the first time, how to read Egyptian hieroglyphs. 

So, just what was stolen? And how? Today, Europe correspondent Rob Harris, on the curious tale of the British Museum’s disappearing collection.

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