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Cairo – <\/em>Egyptian officials and citizens alike have reacted with shock and anger after authorities confirmed that a 3,000-year-old bracelet belonging to an ancient pharaoh was stolen from the Egyptian Museum in Cairo and later melted down for its gold.<\/p>\n Tourism and Antiquities Minister Sherif Fathy revealed the theft in televised comments late Saturday, confirming the artifact once belonged to Pharaoh Amenemope, who ruled around 3,000 years ago during Egypt’s Third Intermediate Period.<\/p>\n The bracelet,…<\/p>\n<\/div>\n Read more on AllAfrica.com<\/a> Cairo – Egyptian officials and citizens alike have reacted with shock and anger after authorities confirmed that a 3,000-year-old bracelet belonging to an ancient pharaoh was stolen from the Egyptian Museum in Cairo and later melted down for its gold. Tourism and Antiquities Minister Sherif Fathy revealed the theft in televised comments late Saturday, confirming […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":208703,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"tdm_status":"","tdm_grid_status":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cdn.allafrica.com\/download\/pic\/main\/main\/csiid\/00671452:4cd44dfe1bf995896e889fa664fbc28b:arc614x376:w1200.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[338],"tags":[49233,258,256,51562,415,3401,4644,52467,257,37700,12628,254,8996],"class_list":["post-208702","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-egypt","tag-3000yearold","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-bracelet","tag-egypt-news","tag-egyptians","tag-gold","tag-melted","tag-news","tag-outraged","tag-pharaohs","tag-south-africa-today","tag-stolen"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cdn.allafrica.com\/download\/pic\/main\/main\/csiid\/00671452:4cd44dfe1bf995896e889fa664fbc28b:arc614x376:w1200.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/208702","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=208702"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/208702\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/208703"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=208702"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=208702"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=208702"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
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