Cairo (AP) -eganists responded with outrage this week after the officials said that the 3,000-year-old bracelet belonging to the ancient Pharaoh was stolen from the famous Cairo Egypt And then he melted into gold.
The Minister of Tourism and Antiques Sherif Fathy said in television comments at the end of Saturday that the bracelet was stolen on 9 September, while officials in the museum were preparing artifacts for an exhibition in Italy. When performing procedures in the facility, he accused “laxity” and stated that prosecutors are still investigating.
The bracelet, which contained the bead Lapis Lazuli, belonged to Pharaoh Amenemope, which ruled about 3,000 years ago. The authorities stated that it was taken from the restaurant laboratory in the museum and then transferred through a chain of sellers before they melted. The Minister said the laboratory has no security cameras.
Four suspects were arrested, including a specialist in a museum who admitted that the bracelet gave the acquaintances who owns a silver shop in the Sayyeda district Zainab. This was reportedly later sold to the owner of the gold workshop for the equivalent of about $ 3,800. Finally, he was sold for approximately $ 4,000 to another golden workshop worker who melted the bracelet to create more gold jewelry.
The suspects confessed to their crimes and the money was confiscated, the ministry said on Thursday in its statement.
The ministry also issued a video for a security camera that shows the shop owner who received a bracelet, consider it and then paid one of the suspects.
The local media reported on Sunday that the judge had ordered a specialist in the renewal and his acquaintance to stay in custody for another 15 days to expect further investigation. He ordered the release of the two remaining suspects if they published a bail set at £ 10,000 ($ 207).
The loss of treasure, which survived three millennia, was painful for many people in Egypt, where there is great respect for the ancient heritage of the nation.
Some questioned security measures in the museum and called for tightening these measures around the treasures of the country.
Monica Hanna, a prominent Egyptian archaeology, urged to suspend the supervision of exhibitions “until better control is implemented” to ensure artifacts. Hanna is the Dean at the Arab Academy for Science, Technology and Maritime Transport and campaigns for the return of Egyptian artifacts exhibited in overseas museums.
Malek Adly, an Egyptian lawyer in human rights, called theft of a “alarm bell” for the government and said that better security is needed for antiques in exhibition halls and those stored.
Amenemope ruled Egypt of Tanis in the Delta of Nile during the 21st Dynasty in Egypt. Tanis Royal Necropolis was discovered by French archaeologist Pierre Montet in 1940, according to the Egyptian Museum.
The Necropolis collection shows about 2,500 ancient artifacts, including gold funeral masks, silver coffins and gold jewelry. The collection was restored in 2021 in cooperation with the Louvre Museum in Paris.
Theft recalled some of the past cultural losses, including the disappearance of “Poppy flowers” Vincent van Gogh – then worth $ 50 million – from another Museum in Cairo in 2010. The painting was first stolen in 1977, but later acquired. However, it has not been found since theft in 2010.
This version fixes that Van Gogh painting has not been restored in 2010. It was restored after the earlier theft in 1977.
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