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New Zealand Graphic, Volume XXXVIII, Issue 7, 16 February 1907, Page 21

A bracelet, made about 5000 8.C., and recently found by Professor Petrie, is composed of finely cut amethysts, turquoises, gold beads, and twisted gold tubes. It has been found on the arm of the mummy of the Queen Teta (Ist Dynasty), at Abydos. Mr. E. A. Rey-nolds-Ball assumes that at a time when the tomb was anciently plundered the mummy of the queen was broken in pieces, and a fragment of the forearm placed by one of the plunderers in a hole in the wall. For more than a thousand years offerings were made at the Osiris shrine (into which the tomb had been converted), and thousands of visitors must have passed within a few feet of the fragment, but without disturbing it. At last, however, it was brought to Professor Petrie, the bandage removed, and the bracelet disclosed. It is probably one of the earliest examples of female jewellery known, dating buck into the mists of antiquity.