Anger in Egypt after pharaoh’s gold bracelet stolen from a Cairo museum is melted down

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Egyptians have expressed outrage after a 3,000-year-old bracelet belonging to an ancient pharaoh was stolen from Cairo’s Egyptian Museum and melted down for gold.

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unconsequential@slrpnk.net ⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

It was allegedly later sold to the owner of a gold workshop for the equivalent of about $3,800. It was eventually sold for around $4,000 to a worker at another gold workshop, who melted the bracelet down to make other gold jewelry.

It survived something like 3,000 years, only for some idiots to make pennies off of it. How tragic.

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