The items—which include a helmet discovered by playing children—belonged to members of the lost Dacian civilisation

Robbers used explosives to break into the Drents Museum in Assen over the weekend and nab three antique bracelets and a 2,500-year-old gold helmet.

THE HAGUE, Jan. 29 (Xinhua) -- Dutch police on Wednesday arrested three suspects in connection with the recent theft of Romanian art treasures from the Drents Museum in Assen, a city in the northern Netherlands.

Dutch police have arrested three men in connection with a brazen heist of ancient Romanian artifacts at a museum in northeastern Netherlands after an intensive four-day hunt.

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.

Romanian artefacts, including a 2,500-year-old gold helmet, were stolen from the Drents Museum in the Netherlands early on Saturday, the museum said.

Thieves used explosives to pull of a shocking heist at a Dutch museum and made off with priceless gold treasures.

Known as the Helmet of Coțofenești, the stolen solid-gold headpiece dates back to roughly 450 BCE. It was discovered by a child in 1929 in a small Romanian village