Venus figurines, with exaggerated sexual characteristics such as big hips and breasts, began appearing about 40,000 years ago ...

The Louvre has reopened to the public, three days after thieves forced open a window and stole French crown jewels in a daring, daylight raid on the museum. The Apollo Room where the theft ...

Laurence des Cars offered to resign as director of the museum after eight pieces from France’s Crown Jewels were stolen in broad daylight.

Suspects have been arrested over the brazen jewellery heist at the Louvre, just as one of them was about to fly out of France ...