Egypt
An ancient Egyptian royal bracelet which had gone missing from the Egyptian Museum in Cairo’s restoration laboratories was sold to a gold merchant for EGP 180,000 EGP (USD 3,733), Egypt’s Ministry of Interior revealed on its social media pages. Despite detaining the crime’s perpetrators, the bracelet has been melted by a gold foundry worker. Investigations revealed that a restoration specialist at the museum stole the bracelet on 9 September before passing it on to a silver shop owner in El-Sayeda…
