How did Kim Kardashian help Egypt to recover her golden coffin stolen from the Metropolitan Museum?
American reality TV star Kim Kardashian helped solve an old criminal case involving the theft of a golden coffin, and uncovered an international organized antiquities looting ring, just through a photo of her.
In 2018, while attending the Met Gala in New York City, Kardashian visited the Metropolitan Museum of Art, and posed for a photo of herself standing next to the golden mummy of "Najm Ankh", wearing a very shiny gold dress and heavy makeup.
Immediately, Kardashian published her golden image on the “Instagram” website, and the image spread so widely on the Internet that it became the evidence that solved the mystery of the theft of the gold artifact, according to the American newspaper, “New York Post.”
A British journalist revealed that the photo had garnered thousands of likes and was an essential clue in tracking down the coffin.
According to the journalist, the ancient artifact dating back to the first century BC was stolen in 2011 from the Egyptian city of Minya and sold to the Metropolitan Museum of Art for $4 million, using forged documents.
As for the details of solving the mystery of the theft of the golden coffin, the Assistant Attorney General in Manhattan, Matthew Bogdanos, was notified of Kardashian's photo standing next to the coffin by an unknown guide in the Middle East, who originally received the photo from the looting gang.
The guide was angry because he never paid the gang to take out the coffin for them, so Bogdanos asked him to provide digital photos of the tomb.
By the time he spoke to the mentor, Bogdanos had opened a jury investigation.
After a long investigation journey that the golden coffin went through from false reports and selling to more than one party, "Najm Ankh" arrived at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, which agreed to pay more than 4 million dollars.
Indeed, after solving the mystery of the theft, the gold-encrusted coffin was returned to Cairo in 2019, where it settled in the Grand Egyptian Museum.
The CEO of the Metropolitan Museum of Art, Daniel Weiss, apologized to the Egyptian people, and especially to the Egyptian Minister of Antiquities, Khaled El-Anany.
It is worth noting that the piece is not just an Egyptian coffin, as Negm Ankh was a high-ranking priest in Egypt and his resting place was elaborate as a result.
The piece is 6 feet tall and covered in gold, an attribute of the ancient Egyptians associated with deities, and is engraved with the name Najm Anj.
On the outside, the ark contains scenes and texts intended to protect and guide the high priest on his way to "eternal life".
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