Elaine Sciolino, former Paris bureau chief of the The New York Times, discusses the painful irony at the heart of Sunday’s grand theft.

The Louvre Museum heist was a classic case of German efficiency. That at least is how a German freight lift manufacturer jokingly portrayed it in an ad.

The French crown jewels robbed from the Louvre museum in Paris are likely lost forever, an art crime expert tells CBS News, even if the thieves are caught.

The precious artifacts snatched from Paris’s Louvre Museum on Sunday include an emerald necklace gifted by Napoleon to his second wife and other priceless crown jewels.

Hours after the ‘heist of the century’ unfolded at the Louvre Museum on Sunday, another museum in northeastern France was robbed. The theft took place at the Maison des Lumières (House of Enlightenment) in Langres,

Authorities were racing Monday to reassure the public about security at key cultural sites — and find the jewels stolen from the museum before they can be broken up and melted down.

French investigators are analysing dozens of DNA samples and fingerprints after this weekend's daylight jewel theft from the Louvre museum, a prosecutor said Thursday.Up to "150 DNA samples, fingerprints and other traces" have been identified,

Hours after the Louvre crown jewels vanished, thieves hit another French museum, stealing 2,000 gold and silver coins worth about $104,000.

A prosecutor in France has said the financial loss from a robbery at the Louvre museum is estimated at €88 million.