In 2018, while attending the Met Gala, Kim Kardashian took a photo next to an Egyptian sarcophagus that had been missing for over 2,100 years, leading to its true origins being discovered.

The coffin, belonging to Nedjemankh, a priest from around 150 BC, had been looted from Egypt during the country’s 2011 revolution and sold with fake export papers. The Met then bought it for $4 million, unaware of its backstory.

After the photo with Kim spread online, investigators in New York tracked the coffin’s trail through various dealers in the UAE, Germany, and France. They found it was part of a larger smuggling network moving looted artifacts out of Egypt.

The Met pulled it from display, and the coffin was returned to Egypt in 2019.