More than 2,000 artefacts were found to be missing from the museum’s collection.
A forensic archaeologist has claimed the British Museum became more receptive to his work investigating “illicit items” in its collection after thefts were revealed at the London-based institution.
He told the PA news agency that he also emailed the museum’s keepers, who manage the different collections, and “none of them ever replied to my emails”, before someone working with research got in touch. Mr Tsirogiannis said: “ may have been a coincidence, may not have been a coincidence. They replied to immediately and said, ‘Yes, of course, we would like to help and let’s discuss and so on’, which we did last week.“And there was this agreement to do so based, of course, on the condition that they will supply me, one way or another … with the images required and requested by us .”
He also pointed out that he would not have access to every item as it had previously been revealed that not all artefacts had been recorded by the museum. Mr Tsirogianni said he was “surprised” by cataloguing difficulties at the institution, adding that it was “completely unexpected” in the “digital age”.
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