After Jewel Heist, Paris’ Louvre Falls Victim to Water Leak

Just weeks after being struck by thieves in a daring jewelry heist, the world-renowned Louvre museum in Paris suffered a leak from a water pipe that damaged hundreds of works in its library on Egyptian antiquities.

These included periodicals and archaeological revues dating from the late 19th and early 20th centuries that are consulted by Egyptologues and students, according to Francis Steinbock, the museum’s deputy general manager.