The police said the golden helmet of Cotofenesti, a highly regarded artifact from Romania, was among the items stolen from the Drents Museum in the Netherlands.

Dutch authorities are desperately investigating a major art heist of a millenia-old golden helmet from an ancient civilization in current-day Romania.

On the morning of January 25th, police responded to the museum at around 3:45 a.m., where they found significant damage to the building and evidence that explosives had been used. Cops ultimately determined that the thieves had somehow blown out the museum’s door,

On Wednesday afternoon, the Drents Museum in Assen, the Netherlands, announced the arrest of three suspects in North Holland after the theft of four gold artifacts that were on loan from the National History Museum of Romania.