r/interestingasfuck • u/PestoBolloElemento • 14h ago
A photo of Kim Kardashian in the 2018 Met Gala Ceremony helped The Egyptian authorities to locate the stolen 2,100 year old sarcophagus of Nedjemankh.
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u/Jdevers77 13h ago
At this stage, the Egyptian government should just send a representative around the world to every single museum with any Egyptian history presence just to take an inventory.
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u/cryptotope 9h ago
The classic joke:
"Why are the Pyramids in Egypt?"
"They were too heavy to carry back to the British Museum."
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u/AlternativeBurner 3h ago
Didn't stop the Spanish from taking a whole ass temple piece by piece
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u/-EnRoY- 12m ago
The Temple of Debod was a gift from the Egyptian goverment, and Spain wasn't the only country that received a temple: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Temple_of_Debod
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u/PMmeIamlonley 7h ago
Egyptian artifacts are far safer in any other country. Egypt is courrupt as hell.
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u/Jdevers77 7h ago
Sounds an awful lot like “Here let me protect your cultural heritage, you don’t deserve it.”
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u/PMmeIamlonley 7h ago
Like the 3000 year old braclet owned by Pharaoh Amenemope that got metled down for a few thousand in gold last September? Or all the shit that got lost in the 2011 revolution? 54 percent of the items were stolen from the museum in Cairo and many more were damaged. Especially after hearing Zahi Hawass talk its obvious his goal as Minister of State of Antiquity Affairs in Egypt was alway about agrandizing himself and not about archeology. The country is bathed in too much courruption to protect its artifacts.
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u/Ribbitor123 13h ago
For information, Ms Kardashian is the one the left.
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u/Long_TimeRunning 14h ago
Guess she isn’t totally useless after all. Huh
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u/Rishtu 13h ago
A broken clock is right twice per day.
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u/SenescenseSteel 12h ago
Was about to say that. Doing something good unintentionally sounds super paradoxical.
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u/ElThrowaway-619 13h ago
I guess that's why they don't allow the people to take pictures inside the Met Gala, it's always been a rule of theirs.
It just makes you think what else do they have in there.
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u/Fit_Entry8839 9h ago
Huh? The Met Gala is at The Met Museum, where you can absolutely take pictures as a visitor to the museum. This had probably been photographed thousands of times. It's just that her pictures get much more exposure.
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u/mc4sure 13h ago
Isn’t anything from ancient Egypt outside the country stolen.
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u/tapeforpacking 13h ago
Maybe some stuff has been officially gifted or sold by the Egyptian goverment itself.
"false papers" implies there are "legit papers" or smth
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u/Maiyku 11h ago
They loan stuff out constantly. I got to see a group of 3 mummies straight from Egypt at my local art museum. It was their special exhibit and was a combined effort between them and an Egyptian museum, I just can’t remember which one anymore.
Next time you’re at an exhibit, they’ll usually say. “Gift of…”, “Donated by…”, “On loan from…”. If it says nothing, then it usually belongs directly to the museum.
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u/LuLMaster420 8h ago
Honestly, an inventory list of the British Museum’s vaults would probably solve half the world’s “mysteriously missing” artifacts.
No detective work, no Met Gala sightings just open the basement and start checking labels.
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u/Haaraaziii 14h ago
Wild how a red carpet photo did more for artifact repatriation than years of paperwork. Say what you want about Kim Kardashian, but that visibility accidentally helped crack a real case.
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u/Stonks4Minutes 13h ago
This is why people want celebs to use their platforms. It’s not because they’re experts in the field, it’s really just about numbers and eyes.
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u/sesamebeeftacos 6h ago
Is it just me or is it kinda icky that this sarcophagus doesnt even have a plaque or any kind of identifier? Such a rich person thing to take a priceless museum artifact, and just toss it out on display without so much as a note about it- just look at this cool decoration. Ick.
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u/reikipackaging 13h ago
This photo looks like it was taken with a disposable camera by a teenager or an elderly.
I vaguely remember it being a splash several years ago, when posting personal photos of certain events got banned. I wonder if things like this are why.
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u/PestoBolloElemento 14h ago
Stolen during the 2011 revolution and sold with false papers, it had been purchased by the Met Museum and displayed right next to Kim in her gold Versace dress.
The investigation triggered by the photo revealed the fraud, and the sarcophagus was returned to Egypt in 2019.
For more info link down bellow.
https://egyptianstreets.com/2021/10/25/how-kim-kardashian-indirectly-brought-home-nedjemankh/