Overview

• Authorities say the bracelet vanished on September 9 from the Egyptian Museum in Cairo while staff prepared objects for an exhibition in Italy.
• The Interior Ministry reports that a museum restoration specialist passed the piece to a silver shop owner in Sayyeda Zainab, then it was resold to a goldsmith and finally melted by a workshop employee.
• Four suspects were detained, gave confessions according to officials, and the proceeds from the sales—roughly $3,800 to $4,000—were seized.
• Security-camera footage released by authorities shows a merchant receiving, weighing, and paying for the bracelet identified in the case.
• Legal action is underway and a special committee will review artifacts stored in the lab as archaeologists and rights advocates call to suspend foreign exhibitions until protections improve.