Robbers used explosives to break into the Drents Museum in Assen over the weekend and nab three antique bracelets and a 2,500-year-old gold helmet.

In what can only be described as a brazen-style heist reminiscent of an Ocean’s Eleven flick, thieves used explosives to blow up the Dutch museum door

The police have found a hammer in the water on the grounds of the Drents Museum in Assen that may have been used in a burglary on Saturday in which several archeological masterpieces were stolen. The sledgehammer was found near the door where the burglars entered,

The 5th-century BC Helmet of Cotofenesti was among the valuable items taken during an overnight heist at Drents Museum in the Netherlands.

Several archaeological pieces from the Dacia - Empire of Gold and Silver exhibition showcasing Dacian treasures from Romania have been stolen after an explosion at the Drents Museum in the Netherlands on the night of January 24 to 25.

All the stolen objects were part of a visiting exhibition, named aptly ‘Dacia - Empire of Gold and Silver’ from the National History Museum of Romania in Bucharest.

The Dacian helmet from Coțofenești, stolen days ago from a museum in the Netherlands, where it was on display without appropriate security, dates back to around 400 BC and was found by mistake nearly 100 years ago.

Dutch authorities are desperately investigating a major art heist of a millenia-old golden helmet from an ancient civilization in current-day Romania.

Dutch police on Wednesday arrested three suspects in connection with the recent theft of Romanian art treasures from the Drents Museum in Assen a cit

The objects, on loan from the Romanian National History Museum in Bucharest, belonged to members of the lost Dacian civilisation

Three people have been arrested in connection with last weekend’s gold heist at the Drents Museum in Assen. All three were picked up in Heerhugowaard, a town in Noord Holland not far from Alkmaar, the Telegraaf reported.