Eight priceless royal jewels, including crowns and necklaces, were stolen from the Louvre in a four-minute heist.

The glittering sapphires, emeralds and diamonds once worn by France’s royals may now be lost forever after a lightning-fast ...

Thieves snatched jewelry valued at more than $100 million, but the museum will not be compensated for the loss.

Louvre started as a medieval military fortress, then became a palace. It took a revolution to turn it into a museum. And it ...

From Empress Eugenie's bodice bow to crowns adorned with pearls and diamonds, the thieves stole eight royal pieces from the Louvre on Sunday.

Each stolen piece — an emerald necklace and earrings, two crowns, two brooches, a sapphire necklace and a single earring — ...

Experts say jewels stolen in heists from the iconic Parisian museum are hard to recover, as they are broken down.

It was the Monday morning of August 21, 1911, the weekly closure day of the Louvre during the summer holidays, when an ...

Cultural institutions are seen as “soft targets,” experts say, as thieves shift from stealing prized paintings, to artifacts that can be dismantled, stripped or melted down for their expensive parts.

Leonardo da Vinci started the iconic 'Mona Lisa' painting in Italy but finished it in France, where he sold it to the French ...

Never say never. The Mona Lisa (1503), undoubtedly the main attraction at the Louvre, was stolen in 1911 and recovered two ...

One of the most infamous heists in the cultural institution’s history was the 1911 theft of the Mona Lisa—when Pablo Picasso ...