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eBay clues exposing British Museum thief

An estimated 2.4 million of the museum's eight million items are uncatalogued, or partially uncatalogued. Credit: BBC

The FBI is investigating the sale to US buyers of what are suspected to be hundreds of treasures from the British Museum. In the UK, police say the investigation is ongoing and nobody has been arrested or charged with any offence. But Danish antiquities dealer Dr Ittai Gradel began to suspect an eBay seller of being a thief who was stealing from the museum back in 2020.

And finally...

Colombia has started exploring a sunk 18th Century Spanish galleon dubbed the “holy grail of shipwrecks”. The ship, whose ownership remains contested, was sunken by the British Royal Navy in 1708, off the Colombian city of Cartagena. It is estimated to be laden with as much as £16bn ($20bn) in treasure, one of the largest hauls of valuables ever lost at sea.