July 27 (UPI) -- The British Museum announced in record filings this week it lost a Cartier diamond ring worth nearly $1 million more than six years ago, but never made a public effort to find it.
The museum, which is funded by U.K. taxpayers, told the BBC it is policy not to report missing items from its more than 1 million-piece collection for five years, though police were notified when staff discovered it was missing in 2011.