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.

In that sense, the Louvre heist wasn’t really art crime, Vernon Rapley, a former leader of the London police force’s art squad, told my colleague Alex Marshall. It was “commodity theft.”

The Louvre Museum robbery of priceless jewelry may prompt museums worldwide to review their security programs and protocols, according to experts.

More than 25 years before Sunday's heist at the iconic museum, a thief took a 19th-century painting in broad daylight.

Myles Connor walked into the Museum of Fine Arts in Boston, and walked out with a Rembrandt painting in the 1980s.

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky is reeling from a bruising Trump meeting. On Friday: Trump told Zelensky to give up land and complained about not getting the Nobel Peace Prize, one diplomat said. Zelensky has since been rallying support in Europe. Police are searching for thieves who stole priceless jewels from the Louvre.

Paris prosecutor Laure Beccuau says thieves who stole priceless jewelry from the Louvre Museum in a seven-minute heist may have been hired by a collector.

Laurence des Cars has been summoned to appear before France’s Senate Culture Committee on Wednesday to an answer questions regarding the museum's security and what may have went wrong on Sunday when nine "priceless" pieces were swiped from the Louvre’s Apollo Gallery.