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Breaking good news: The Gold Helmet of Coțofenești — a key historical artifact for the people of #Romania, stolen in 2025 from the Drents Museum — has just been recovered in the #Netherlands, together with two of its three Dacian Gold Bracelets. The helmet and the bracelets had been featured since September 2025 in the @UNESCO Virtual Museum of Stolen Cultural Objects to raise awareness about the illicit trafficking of cultural property. With its return to the people of Romania, the Virtual Museum is losing its first objects and hoping more will follow soon. The search for the third bracelet is still ongoing. #UNESCO Virtual Museum of Stolen Objects was created as the only global museum in the world whose ambition is to be empty. We hope one day its collections will be returned to their rightful owners. Today marks a meaningful first step toward that vision. For more information: museum.unesco.org/stolen-objects…








