Kim Kardashian’s Met Gala photo helped to solve a decades long ancient Egyptian mystery

Erm, so it turns out one of the pictures that was taken of Kim Kardashian at the 2018 Met Gala actually ended up solving a decades long ancient Egyptian mystery, and yes I’m being 100 per cent serious.

During the Met Gala, photographer Landon Nordeman took a picture of Kim Kardashian standing next to the ancient Egyptian coffin of Nedjemankh, a priest of the ram-god Heryshaf.

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The ancient Egyptian coffin was dug up in 2011 following a revolution, and was spotted by a former smuggler who realised they were never paid for the discovery of the coffin, despite it being sold to the Met for $4 million.

The picture of the coffin was sent to Manhattan Assistant District Attorney Matthew Bogdanos, who was investigating the illegal antiques trade.

Matthew told The Times that there’s “no honour among thieves,” adding that his office “had proved that the gold coffin was looted from Egypt by members of an international antiquities-trafficking organisation.”

He added: “This office seized material connected to the Germany-based antiquities dealers Roben Galel Dib and Serop Simonian.

“Both Dib and Serop Simonian have previously been the subject of criminal investigations in multiple countries resulting in the seizure of hundreds of pieces of stolen cultural property.

He continued, explaining that the coffin seen in the picture of Kim Kardashian from the Met Gala proved the ancient artifact had been stolen.

He explained: “The material this office obtained consisted of thousands of images and videos — many of which depicted dirty or damaged antiquities.

“This material included six images of an object that this office later determined to be the gold coffin.”

The coffin was then returned to Cairo in 2019, with the Met’s director, Max Hollein, explaining that the museum would make sure they “learn from this event” and would look into their acquisitions policy to “understand what more can be done to prevent such events in the future.”

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