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Darrin Klimek/Getty Images(LONDON) Please return if found: Hundreds of missing artefacts formerly housed in a museum in central London. The British Museum has issued a plea to the public to assist in the recovery of ancient artefacts reported stolen or missing from its collection. The museum which announced on Aug. 16 that the Metropolitan Police were investigating "a number of items" found to be "stolen, missing or damaged" is now appealing to anyone who may have seen the items to get in touch. Sixty items have been returned thus far, the museum said in a statement sent to ABC News. Three hundred more are "due to be returned imminently." The announcement followed one in August by British Museum Chairman George Osborne, who disclosed that "around 2,000" artefacts had been stolen from the museum s storerooms by a suspected museum curator. The scandal, which has been called an "embarrassment" for the institution, triggered the

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