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.

Among the stolen artifacts were the golden helmet of Coțofenești and three golden bracelets that dated back to the ancient Dacians.

Dutch police on Wednesday arrested three men in connection with a brazen heist of ancient Romanian artifacts at a museum in the northeastern

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

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.

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.

News - The suspects detained in connection with the theft of Dacian treasures from the Drents Museum in Assen will be questioned on Friday by a Dutch

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 have released the names and photographs of two suspects arrested in connection with the theft of Romanian archaeological masterpieces from the Drents Museum last Saturday morning, January 25.

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