London, Thanasis Gavos

Photographs of items in his collection which look like some of the approx British Museum reveals 2,000 valuable artefacts stolen from its warehousesmore than a month after the thefts were revealed.

The vast majority of stolen goods which the Museum is looking for it is from the collection of gems and jewels and mainly from the Greek and Roman collection.

As can be seen from the photos of similar objects posted on a special website, these include gems, gold rings, earrings, bracelets and necklaces. Some of them they date from the Late Bronze Age (15th-11th century BC).

The number of around 2,000 items missing was admitted by the chairman of the museum’s trustees, George Osborne.

As it was not known, only 4.5 million of the at least 8 million objects in the Museum’s collections have been recordedmaking the task of recovering the stolen more difficult.

However, according to the London institution, about 60 of the stolen ones have been returned and about 300 more have been located and are expected to return to the London institution soon.

Website britishmuseum.org/our-work/departments/recovery-missing-items is available from early Tuesday afternoon. No details of the stolen items are given but “the types of items missing”, accompanied by photographs.

Along with the disclosure of the thefts, the dismissal of 56-year-old Peter Higgs was also announcedwho for a time held the position of curator of the Greek collections.