British Museum Staffer Fired for Lost and Damaged Items Identified as Veteran Curator Peter Higgs

Peter John Higgs, a prominent curator of Greek antiquities who was employed at the British Museum for three decades, has been identified by the Times of London and the Daily Telegraph as the person allegedly responsible for missing, stolen and damaged items from the museum’s collection.Higgs is suspected to have taken uncategorized items and selling them on the e-commerce website eBay. Listings for artifacts from the museum’s collection appeared online as early as 2016, according to