Unions at the Louvre have called a rolling strike starting 15 December following a series of crises at the Paris museum, including a high-profile jewel theft in October and a water leak in November that damaged hundreds of works in the Louvre's Egyptian department.
On Sunday, the Louvre museum's deputy administrator Francis Steinbock announced that "between 300 and 400 works" were affected by a leak discovered on 26 November, describing them as "Egyptology journals" and "scientific documentation" used by researchers.
