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A 3000-year-old gold bracelet, which disappeared from the Egyptian Museum in Cairo, was stolen and melted, the Egyptian Ministry of Internal Affairs reports.
The restoration specialist took the artifact – dating from King Amenemop, Pharaoh, who ruled Egypt about 1000 BC. – From the safe to the museum nine days ago, the ministry reports.
The woman contacted the silver jewelry she knew that she sold a $ 3735 bracelet (2,750 pounds), the statement said. He then sold it for $ 4.025 with a gold found worker who melted it with other decorations, he added.
The ministry said four people had confessed to their crimes after the arrest and that the money had been confiscated.
On Tuesday, the Ministry of Tourism and Antiquity Egypt announced that I had taken immediate action after the bracelet disappeared from the Egyptian restoration laboratory, and the case was handed to the police.
The image of a gold group, decorated with spherical beads of Lapuli, was distributed in all Egyptian airports, seaport and land intersection as a precaution to avoid smuggling from the country, the statement said.
Local media reported that the disappearance was found in recent days when the museum staff were preparing to send dozens of artifacts to Rome for the exhibition.
The Egyptian Museum in Cairo is the oldest archaeological museum in the Middle East. It houses more than 170,000 artifacts, including a gilded wooden funeral mask.
The theft of the bracelet took place a few weeks before the opening of the Great Egyptian Museum in neighboring Giz, where the famous treasures of the tomb of King Tutankhamun were handed over.
