The chair of the British Museum has provided the first estimate for the number of items that were stolen in recent years. The emerging scandal has led to the resignation of the museum's director
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The head of trustees at the British Museum said Saturday that the museum has recovered some of the 2,000 items believed to have been stolen by an insider, but admitted that the 264-year-old institution does not have records of everything in its vast collection.