The authorities in all the Egypt They are looking for a gold bracelet 3,000 years old who was reported as lost by the Cairo Museum.
The rare gold bracelet, decorated with spherical beads of Lazurite, dates from the time of King Amenmopi, a Pharaoh of the 21st dynasty of ancient Egypt, who ruled from 993 to 984 BC.
The Ministry of Antiquities said it had taken immediate action after the elimination of the bracelet from the Egyptian Museum’s restoration laboratory and that the case was referred to the police.
According to the BBC, a photo of the bracelet has been distributed to all Egyptian airports, ports and land border points as a “preventive measure to prevent smuggling efforts”.
3,000-Year-Old Gold Bracelet Reported Missing from Cairo Museum!
A 3,000-year-old gold bracelet from Pharaoh Amenemope’s era has vanished from Cairo’s Egyptian Museum ahead of the Grand Egyptian Museum opening, prompting a nationwide investigation.
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A special committee was also set up to carry out all the items kept in the restoration laboratory.
The Egyptian Museum in Cairo is the oldest in the whole of the Middle East
The ministry said it deliberately delayed the announcement of the disappearance of the bracelet “in order to ensure the right environment for the progress of investigations”, but did not mention when the jewelry was last seen.
A special committee has also been set up to record and examine all the items kept in the restoration laboratory.
The Egyptian newspaper “Al-Misri Al-Yawm” said the disappearance was detected in recent days, as museum staff were preparing to send dozens of items to Rome for an exhibition to open next month.
The Egyptian Museum in Cairo is the oldest archaeological museum in the entire Middle East. It hosts more than 170,000 objects, including the gold -plated wooden burial mask of the anenemope.
The disappearance of the bracelet comes six weeks before the inauguration of the Grand Egyptian Museum in the nearby Giza, where the world -renowned treasures of the tomb of King Tutankhamen have been transported and will be exposed.