He believes that tens of thousands of objects may have been sold abroad.
The same tools of close examination used in the Google Art Project are now available to thousands of objects.
Thousands of objects have posed for the camera in order to be included in an online database.
Sheppard said he predicts thousands of objects the same size as 2015 TG387 dot the rim of our solar system.
In terms of the looting of museums, thousands of objects are still missing, but many major pieces have been recovered.
Visual long-term memory can store thousands of objects with surprising visual detail, but just how detailed are these representations, and how can one quantify this fidelity?
In the study, the results of which could have implications for artificial intelligence and for understanding memory disorders, people viewed thousands of objects over five hours.
Across Harvard, in museums and collections, thousands of objects from Asian nations delight viewers when put on display and enlighten researchers who study the collections.
These images - including supernova remnants, stellar nurseries, and galaxies -- represent the observations of thousands of objects that are permanently available to the world thanks to Chandra's archive.
Using this strategy and other enhanced techniques, Russakovsky and her colleagues built a collection of millions of images of thousands of objects, which they called ImageNet.
