Egypt says 3,000-year-old bracelet was stolen and melted down

[muriel_volestrangler]

Sure, in the rest of current news, this don't amount to a hill o' beans, but it's so depressing that someone would steal a 3,000 year old piece of jewellery for its gold value alone.

A 3,000-year-old gold bracelet that disappeared from the Egyptian Museum in Cairo was stolen and melted down, Egypt's interior ministry says.

A restoration specialist took the artefact - which dates back to the reign of King Amenemope, a pharaoh who ruled Egypt around 1,000BC – from a safe at the museum nine days ago, according to the ministry.

The woman contacted a silver jeweller she knew, who sold the bracelet to a gold jeweller for $3,735 (£2,750), it said. He then sold it for $4,025 to a gold foundry worker, who had melted it down with other jewellery, it added.

The ministry said the four individuals confessed to their crimes after being arrested and that the money was seized.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c1kw8dwy4dro

You yearn for some megalomaniac collector who would have hidden it to see it all for himself, and then it could re-appear decades later.

[yardwork]

1. That makes me so angry.

I wish bad things on the thieves and everyone involved in destroying the object.

[JoseBalow]

10. A mummy's curse

[marble falls]

2. Depressing, but unforunately, not uncommon.

[Celerity]

3. its gold may end up here:

[Vinca]

4. Don's Flea Market finds. Impress your friends - it looks just like real gold!

[irisblue]

5. Please please please say someof that image is fake

I need a tum & a mug of ginger tea

[Celerity]

7. Real: U.S. President Donald Trump meets with Bahrain's Crown Prince and Prime Minister Salman bin Hamad Al Khalifa in

the Oval Office at the White House in Washington, D.C., U.S., July 16, 2025. REUTERS/Nathan Howard

https://www.rawstory.com/oval-office/

[not fooled]

6. Naw...the bracelet was real gold

At least some of Dicktator Don's decor is spray painted crap:

https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/us-politics/trump-oval-office-home-depot-gold-b2823190.html]

President Donald Trump’s brag that he transformed the Oval Office into a “24-karat gold” paradise, dripping in ornate decor, has seemingly been debunked by Internet sleuths who say the new furnishings are actually cheap plastic bought at Home Depot.

As shiny gold vermeil figurines were placed on the mantel, medallions on the fireplace, and gold eagles on the side tables, some eagle-eyed sleuths zeroed in on the Oval Office’s wall and fireplace trimmings.

According to the skeptics, several of those trimmings are actually plastic molds bought at Home Depot and painted in gold, Inside Edition reported.

The plastic embellishments, sold at the popular hardware and home improvement store as “polyurethane applique & onlay molding,” retail for $58.07, according to The Mirror.

[spike jones]

8. This picture makes it clear the pee (Golden Shower) tapes are real.

[Orrex]

9. Nothing good can stay, apparently

[moonshinegnomie]

11. lock he rup until teh bracelet is returned

and i am well aware what this means......