A precious French gold bracelet disappeared in a conservation laboratory in Egypt, and the country’s antiques and tourism ministry reported that stolen artifacts sold 194,000 Egyptian pounds (about $4,000) and melted. The 3,000-year-old treasure is decorated with Lapis Lazuli beads, belonging to King Amenemope, who ruled in Egypt around 1000 B.C.
According to the day the bracelet disappeared, it was discovered that it was stolen from the safe by a repair expert, sold to a bank merchant, and passed a gold smelter that recast it with other metals. Reuters.
A committee has been established to investigate artifacts in the laboratory and to spread photos of the bracelets to Egypt’s airports, seaports and border crossings with suspicion of possible smuggling abroad. one CBS News Four suspects have since been arrested and the proceeds from the sale have been recovered, the report said.
As noted earlier this week about the disappearance, the bracelet (a bracelet in the collection of Egyptian Museum in Cairo) works in the laboratory ahead of the exhibition titled “The Treasure of the Pharaoh” held in Scuderie del Quirinale in Rome next month. The loss also occurred before the opening of the Great Egyptian Museum near the pyramids of Giza in November.
