Four held as pharaoh’s 3000-year-old bracelet stolen

The Ministry of Interior says four people were arrested because of the robbery of a 3000 -year -old Egyptian bracelet of a 3000 -year -old Egyptian bracelet.

The ministry said the gold bracelet was stolen by a restoration expert and sold twice before melting with other gold jewels.

On Tuesday, the authorities announced that a bracelet disappeared from the restoration laboratory at the Egyptian Museum in the center of Cairo.

The Golden Bracelet was decorated with a global lapis Lazuli bead, which belongs to the King of Pharaoh, Amenemope, which was believed to run around 990 BC ancient Egypt.

The Ministry of Interior reported that the museum officials disappeared from a iron safe in the museum’s restoration laboratory on September 13th.

The investigations revealed that a restoration expert in the museum stole the bracelet while working there on September 9th.

A silver shop he knew helped him sell a golden workshop owner for 180,000 corn pounds (A5,600).

Secondly, he sold it back to another worker in a workshop to pour gold for 194,000 pounds, which melted with other jewelry to reshape the bracelet.

The Ministry of Interior added that the perpetrators were arrested and confessed to the crime and seized money.

According to the local media, the disappearance of the bracelet came while preparing works for an exhibition that will offer 130 Pharaoh goods in Rome next month.

In 2004, 38 ancient Roman jewelry collections disappeared in the Cairo Museum.

In 2011, several pieces belonging to the collection of ancient king Tutlukhamun were stolen from the museum near Cairo’s Tahrir Square.

The square was the focus of protests during a unrest.

The last event comes before the opening of the Great Egyptian Museum for November 1.

The new museum is located near the pyramids.