Thieves used a stolen truck-mounted moving lift to scale the Louvre and steal royal jewels worth over $100 million in a lightning-fast Paris heist.

The brazen robbery on Sunday has put a spotlight on security protocols in the sprawling museum, which have been tested over the years by break-ins and thefts.

From a security point of view, there are five key ideas that can help us understand what the flaws were in the Louvre, as well as how, and why, criminals target museums. Although there is no doubt that cybersecurity is a major threat to cultural institutions – with risks ranging from unauthorised access to digitised catalogues to sabotaging surveillance and alarm systems – we cannot downplay the essential role of physical security.

French and American conservatives have made Sunday’s daylight Louvre heist the site of a battle in the culture wars upon learning the museum’s security head is a woman. After thieves executed a surprisingly simple heist to rob the museum of jewels that belonged to Napoleon’s family,

In that sense, the Louvre heist wasn’t really art crime, Vernon Rapley, a former leader of the London police force’s art squad, told my colleague Alex Marshall. It was “commodity theft.”

It took thieves just seven minutes to steal nine pieces of priceless jewelry from the famed Louvre in Paris on Sunday. Such a brazen heist has led many to

If they'd pulled their Louvre heist two centuries ago, the thieves might have tripped over the artist of a painting that hangs in the RISD Museum.

Laurence des Cars is speaking for the first time since a gang of masked thieves - who remain at large - carried out Sunday's robbery.

The heist at the Louvre on Sunday morning, which saw thieves flee with eight royal jewels, has raised questions about how well France's priceless historical artefacts and cultural heritage are

The world was shocked to learn of the brazen daytime burglary at the venerated Paris institution, but art experts told the Daily Beast why they could have predicted it.

Police are continuing to search for the gang of thieves who broke into the Parisian museum using chainsaws and stole priceless jewellery

Wild viral footage shows the thieves who stole $100 million of precious jewels from the Louvre making a slow getaway on a mobile lift.