Ancient Egyptian Artifacts Stolen From Australian Museum - Beritaja

He turned “cat burglar” into a occupation description.

A 52‑year‑old man has been charged aft an Egyptian feline sculpture and “priceless” artifacts were stolen from an Australian history museum, Queensland constabulary said Sunday.

The fishy is accused of smashing a model astatine the Abbey Museum of Art and Archaeology successful Caboolture, northbound of Brisbane, successful the early hours of Friday morning, earlier making disconnected pinch the ancient haul.

Authorities quickly recovered the stolen treasures, including the 2,600-year-old woody feline, a 3,300-year-old necklace, a mummy disguise and a collar from a mummy.

All the stolen items person now been recovered pinch only insignificant harm aft searching a camper van, constabulary said, pinch about of the artifacts still intact.

Police located the conveyance successful a parking batch astatine a ferry terminal astatine about 1:30 p.m. connected Saturday, about 50 miles from the museum, pursuing a two-day search.

The suspect, who has nary fixed address, was allegedly recovered successful possession of the last missing point — the woody feline sculpture. He was arrested connected Russell Island, a mini land disconnected the seashore of Queensland, hours later and has been charged pinch breaking and entering, on pinch 3 counts of willful damage.

He is owed to look successful Cleveland Magistrates Court connected Monday.

The heist wasn’t rather arsenic movie‑made arsenic the Louvre heist successful October 2025, erstwhile 4 masked thieves pulled disconnected a daylight robbery successful conscionable 7 minutes, smashing show cases to bargain 8 pieces of France’s historical crown jewels.

France’s Ministry of Culture confirmed the jewels stolen included a necklace and a brace of earrings from the Marie-Louise collection; a necklace, earrings and a tiara from the Queen Marie-Amélie and Queen Hortense collection; and a brooch, bodice front and a tiara from the postulation of Empress Eugénie.

The stolen jewels are worth an estimated $102 million, and the mostly were not recovered.