Appearing on stamps, merchandise and plush toys, the diminutive jadeite carving is so popular it occupies its own room at Taiwan’s National Palace Museum.
Thieves made away with eight objects on display at the Paris museum, including a sapphire diadem, necklace and single earring from a set linked to 19th-century Queens Marie-Amélie and Hortense.
Empress Eugenie’s imperial crown, with more than 1,300 diamonds, was recovered on the day of the robbery outside the museum.
The diamond and emerald-studded crown of Empress Eugénie, which was found damaged near the Louvre after being dropped by ...
PARIS (AP) — The robbery at the Louvre has done what no marketing campaign ever could: It has catapulted France’s dusty crown jewels — long admired at home, little known abroad — to global fame. One ...
Firestone puts it this way: The jewels are “the Louvre’s final word in the language of monarchy — a glittering echo of kings and queens as France crossed into a new era.” They are not ornaments, she ...
Masked thieves stole priceless jewels from the Louvre on Sunday morning. The Paris museum has suffered a string of successful ...
One of the most infamous heists in the cultural institution’s history was the 1911 theft of the Mona Lisa—when Pablo Picasso numbered among the suspects. People gather around the Mona Lisa painting in ...
Weekends are a popular time for tourists to visit museums. The Louvre also happens to be the most popular museum on earth. To pull off a heist at the world’s busiest museum is no easy feat, but doing ...
The robbers employed a portable electric ladder to break into a second-floor wing of the Paris museum that holds the French crown jewels. By Catherine Porter and Aurelien Breeden Catherine Porter and ...
The Meta Ray-Ban Display glasses are quite a but thicker than the company's other smart glasses. (Karissa Bell for Engadget) I've been wearing the $800 Meta Ray-Ban Display glasses daily for ten days ...
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