Thieves did manage to penetrate the burial chambers, but left behind a number of precious funerary artefacts that were discovered in 1993.

Greater care, however, will be taken with another precious artefact from the Royal wedding.

Uncovered in 1830, the stone tomb yielded a wealth of precious artefacts which drew considerable public interest to Scythian world.

Mrs Trinlay Gyalmo also donated 21 acres of paddy field for up-keeping precious artefacts of the Monastery.

The cathedral has very few treasures: many have been lost, and in 1810 a major robbery took almost all of the remaining precious artefacts.

The first of these exhibitions, which featured royal objects from the Qing Dynasty, put on display many precious artefacts never seen before outside China.

Magnificently decorated, it is one of the most precious artefacts of the Ottonian manuscript painting school.

Professor Slocombe's study had been cleared of every antique book, every glass-cased creature, every precious artefact, each table, chair and couch.

The precious artefacts from the abbey were auctioned and scattered in museums around the world.

Historian James Romanelli recently auctioned off precious artefacts found near this site to an environmental institute.