We all have grown up watching the captivating Hollywood thrillers about art thieves slipping past alarms and guards to snatch treasures that have survived centuries until we landed with a wild, real-life jewellery heist at the Louvre in Paris, where robbers made off with priceless Napoleonic jewels in under seven minutes. However, this is not the first and the incident joins a long and riveting history of museum thefts that continue to fascinate and horrify. For centuries, art has symbolised beauty, legacy and human genius and yet, behind the quiet hum of museum halls lies another story: one of obsession, danger and daring. Art heists fascinate because they are a mirror of human desire and the yearning to possess beauty, to outsmart the system, to become part of history. The allure is

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