3,000-year-old Pharaoh’s bracelet stolen and melted down for gold worth £3,000
Isn’t this exactly how you get an ancient Egyptian curse? A 3,000-year-old Pharaoh’s bracelet has been stolen from a museum and melted down for gold.
Pharaoh Amenemope’s lapis lazuli bead jewellery was snatched from Cairo’s Egyptian Museum on September 9, before being sold for the equivalent of roughly £2,819.
A restoration specialist from the museum is said to have taken the artefact, which then passed through a chain of dealers before being melted down.
Four suspects have been arrested, including the restoration specialist, while prosecutors continue to investigate.