Experts say France's royal jewels may be gone forever after a daring heist at the Louvre.

Thieves entered the Louvre using a basket lift on Sunday and made away with priceless jewels, France's interior minister said, as the museum closed for the day.

A dramatic heist at the Louvre Museum in Paris has left the museum surrounded by police and closed to visitors for at least the day. Early on Sunday morning (October 19) a group…

The world's most-visited museum will remain closed for the day for 'exceptional reasons'.

The robbery took place shortly after the famous Paris museum opened on Sunday.

Thieves have pulled off a daring heist at the Louvre, using a basket lift to reach the museum on Sunday morning.

The world-famous museum in Paris was closed on Sunday after a masked gang raided one of its galleries.

A group of thieves broke into the Louvre Museum on Sunday morning and stole seven priceless jewels from the Apollo Gallery before fleeing on motorcycles.

Thieves used an extendable ladder and motorbikes to steal eight precious items from Apollo's Gallery at Paris museum.

The most spectacular Louvre robbery since the Mona Lisa in 1911 proves the vulnerability of French museums, writes Hugh Schofield.

PARIS: In a minutes-long strike Sunday inside the world’s most-visited museum, thieves rode a basket lift up the Louvre‘s facade, forced a window, smashed display cases and fled…

The French culture ministry said eight pieces were stolen – but not the hugely valuable crown of Napoleon III’s wife, Empress Eugenie

Eight 19th-century jewels were stolen from the world famous museum on the morning of Sunday, October 19, by a criminal gang.

PARIS: The hunt was on Monday for the band of thieves who stole eight priceless royal pieces of jewelry from the Louvre Museum in the heart of Paris in broad daylight.Officials…

The jewellery heist at the Louvre on Sunday is only the latest in a series of thefts

One day after four men staged a heist of the Louvre Museum, French officials were looking Monday to find the thieves and the priceless jewels they swiped.

Eight extremely valuable items were stolen on Sunday morning from the Apollo Gallery in the world's largest museum. Most of them belonged to Marie-Amélie of Bourbon-Siciles,…

A group of thieves stole jewelry from Paris' Louvre museum. Here's which items they took, according to officials.

France ordered a security review at the Louvre and checks at other cultural sites while a hunt was underway for thieves who lifted priceless crown jewels in an audacious daylight…

Lots of emeralds, sapphires and diamonds, some belonging to Napoleon's wife.

Follow the Louvre robbery: How thieves pulled off the extraordinary theft of priceless jewels from the world-famous museum in broad daylight.