WORLD : Jewelry Stolen From the Louvre
Curators checking the Louvre after the theft of a Renoir painting this week discovered that a dozen ancient necklaces, bracelets and earrings had been stolen from a display case, officials announced today.
The officials said the 2nd- and 3rd-Century jewelry was stolen from the department of Egyptian antiquities. It was discovered missing during an inspection by department curators on Wednesday.
The announcement of the theft came one day after authorities took the unprecedented step of closing five Paris museums to individual visitors after art thefts at the Louvre and two other Paris museums on the same day.
But the director of the Museums of France, Jacques Sallois, said the jewelry theft occurred long before the paintings were stolen.
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