British Museum locates further stolen items

The British Museum has found a further 268 items that went missing or were stolen from its storerooms.

The Guardian reports that the latest batch of recovered items brings the total to 626. George Osborne, the museum’s Chair, said the number of items recovered so far was a “remarkable result”.

“Few expected to see this day, and even I had my doubts," he said. 

"When we announced the devastating news that objects had been stolen from our collection, people understandably assumed that was it – we were unlikely to ever see more than a handful of them again. That’s usually the history with thefts like this,” he said.

“But the team at the British Museum refused to give up. Through clever detective work and a network of well-wishers, we’ve achieved a remarkable result: more than 600 of the objects are back with us, and a further 100 have been identified – in total almost half the stolen items that we could recover.”

Around 2,000 items were found last year to be missing or lost, some of which had been sold on eBay.