The theft that occurred at the Louvre Museum in Paris over the weekend is "damn close" to most expense museum theft in history, according to one of the most famous art thieves in the world. Myles Connor walked into the Museum of Fine Arts in Boston and walked out with a Rembrandt painting in the 1980s.

Thieves broke into the Louvre in Paris — the world's most visited museum — early Sunday morning. Museum officials said they stole jewelry and fled.

LONDON -- As the alarms sounded at the Louvre Museum on Sunday morning, four suspects took off on two motorbikes, winding their way through central Paris, allegedly carrying with them a haul of "priceless" jewelry once worn by queens and made of sapphires, diamonds and emeralds.

Museum heists, particularly ones involving historic and valuable items, have shocked the world and inspired mystery and suspicion for more than a century.

A visual representation of how thieves broke into Paris’ Louvre museum and stole priceless objects from an area that houses the French crown jewels before escaping on motorbikes.

The famed museum in Paris remained closed a day after the heist. One government official admits that the heist exposed security failings at the museum.

L ONDON -- As the alarms sounded at the Louvre Museum on Sunday morning, four suspects took off on two motorbikes, winding their way through central Paris, allegedly carrying with them a haul of "priceless" jewelry once worn by queens and made of sapphire, diamonds and emeralds.

The thieves who robbed Paris' Louvre museum on Sunday made off with eight priceless objects, with a ninth that they tried to steal recovered at the scene, Paris Prosecutor Laure Beccuau said.