British Museum to Hire Specialist to Find Missing Gold ‘Before It’s Melted Down’

The British Museum is on the hunt for hundreds of stolen artifacts, and it plans to hire a specialist to help track them down before they vanish for good.In 2023, the museum revealed that thousands of items had gone missing from its Greek and Roman collections. Tom Harrison, who was recently promoted to lead the department, has been leading the painstaking recovery of the treasures spanning gold jewelry, semiprecious stones, and glass dating back to the 15th century BCE. Harrison told the Times