By Laura Rani Rai
Here is a story that can feel like a Hollywood script. A shiny jewelry, a clever inside the job, and a missing treasure. Think Pink pantherFor, for, for,. To catch a thiefOr Ocean 8. But this is a real. Egyptian Museum in Cairo.
On 9 September 2025, A 3,000 -year -old ancient brace of Pharaoh Aminemop Disappeared. At night, masked thieves were not encouraged, but someone inside the museum’s conservation laboratory stole the stolen in the light of the day.
Double? Details are funny. Did he suffer from illness? Did he old … “Hey, look there” trick ??? Whatever happens, he worked. Within hours (and after calling friends of his black market jewelry), he smuggled a bracelet out of the museum and sold it to the Goldsmith District in Cairo. Thankfully, three people have now been arrested.
Dollar melted for money
The trail of this invaluable model is astonishing and tragic. The conservator was allegedly brought to a friend in Al -Sida Zainab district of Cairo in Cairo. From there, the historic Gold arrived at the owner of a gold workshop in the Goldsmith District, El Sagha. Finally, it landed with a smelly employee of gold, which melted to re -make it in other items.
Delivery? Simply EGP 194,000About the Oth Out 000 US $ 4,000.
It was just no turnout. The brace was A The solid gold band is adorned with lapseDating about 1000 BCE. It may not have been the most widely piece of tennis, but as a rare royal ancient, its historical and cultural value was beyond the book.
Under the authors Photo Cairo Museum – Refundance 2016
000 US $ 4,000: A full year salary for many people in Cairo
It is difficult for many of us in the West to understand why one will risk freedom for his career and such a pallet. But in Egypt, even for an educated museum, can represent more than 4,000 a year’s salary.
Here is the conservators in Cairo generally earn:
- Medium Conservator: EGP 15,000-30,000 every month (≈ 310 – $ 620 US dollars) → $ 3,700 – $ 7,400 US $ each year.
- Head of Senior / Department: EGP 400,000 – 630,000000 each year $ 8,250 – $ 13,000 US $.
- Museum Curator (Related Field): EGP 255,000 – 2666,000 each year, $ 5,250 US $ 5,500.
In this light, theft is a traumatic social dimension. Poverty, low wages and limited opportunities even put skilled professionals in disappointing movements.
History is repeating itself
This is not the first time that Egypt’s treasures have been robbed. In fact, theft echoes a long tradition that extends to ancient times.
After the glory of the new kingdom, Egypt entered the fall. During the reign of government Ramsis III (The twelfth century BC), attacks on mining campaigns and the renovation of the temple, attacking the “maritime” and the wars against royal spending ended the treasury. In the late Medina, the workers-the craftsmen who built the royal tombs were free and hungry. Date to face the date because of their complaints First labor strike recordedThe strike at the Oriental Institute of Chicago is safe in Pepper.
Within a century, the tomb robbers accelerated it The valley of kings. Who is better to know where the treasures were hidden than the grave makers themselves? Gold, silver and jewelry were looted, melted, and sold in the black market.
Fast Forward 3,000 years: A Conservator, with intimate knowledge of the museum’s methodology, targeted bracelets. Different thousand, one story.
Aminemop: Pharaoh behind the bracelet
So who was Aminopop, the king whose bracelet is now lost?
I (the image of the authors) with aminemop – and with the Golded Mask of Bracelet
Aminemop ruled for almost nine years during Egypt 21st family (C. 1001-992 BC), a part of the third intermediate period of the third intermediate was his capital TennisNile Delta is far from the north. Tennis can be familiar with film people: I Indiana Jones: Lost ark raidsIt was imagined as a secret resting place of the ark of the covenant.
In fact, tennis was a “other hand capital”. Its rulers recycle monuments, Oblisx and even coffins from the previous periods. Nevertheless, there were real treasures including Aminaop’s burial Gold and lapse bracelet And a beautiful GLOS.
Perry Monttt, French archaeologist discovered tennis treasures c) Wikipedia
The tomb was discovered by the French archaeological in the late 1930s Perry MonteWhich revealed four close royal burial in tennis: Psusennes I, AMEMOPE, Shoshenq II, and General Wendjebauendjed. This search was amazing – equal to Carter’s Tanthman discovery. But time is everything. In 1939, the announcement of the Monte was brought to the forefront of World War II.
Today, tennis treasures form a magnificent part of the Egyptian Museum’s collection. See my Video on the magnificent silver coffin Shoshik i
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Photo of authors: Gold Silver Offer Bowl Tennis Treasures
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Photo of authors: Silver coffin Schushanq i
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Author Photo: More Tennis Treasures
Cairo’s museum in transition
This theft itself sheds light on the Egyptian museum. In 1902, the writing was opened in the square, it has long been a beloved, if he is somewhat chased, the temple of antiquities. Its wooden affairs, resonant halls, and charming visitors of the 19th-century charm-but its protective measures are often left behind international standards.
As Egypt is preparing to open new Grand Egyptian Museum (Money) Near Giza pyramid, the writing museum has been moving the items slowly. Just this month, in the last treasury of Totnakhman, which includes its famous golden mask.
But in the Conservation Lab, where the aminemop was kept, there were allegedly there No security camera. This absence of surveillance has enabled theft.
Questions that are left
Something good from bracelet loss. Reflection reflects:
- Is Egypt’s struggle economy the real cause of such theft, which also makes skilled workers suffer from temptation?
- Should Egypt’s old museums like the people in the essence – should adopt environmental, security and procedures?
- And what the world should demand Antiquities return to EgyptWhen does its institutions sometimes struggle to protect what they already have?
A loss, but not last
The story of Aminop’s bracelet is both tragic and strange. Until five thousand years, Egypt’s treasures are stealing, smuggling, melting or invisible. This is just one of the latest chapters of theft looting and safety cycle that seems to be made in the history of the nation.
We can only mourn the loss of this piece of ancient workmanship. It is a golden circle that once adorned Pharaoh’s wrist. , Lobby of 000 4,000 fleet, The world has been robbed of its deep past link.
And as history shows, this will not be the last time.
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