{"id":234627,"date":"2025-09-17T20:09:17","date_gmt":"2025-09-17T20:09:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/234627\/"},"modified":"2025-09-17T20:09:17","modified_gmt":"2025-09-17T20:09:17","slug":"pharaohs-3000-year-old-gold-bracelet-vanishes-from-museum-in-egypt-authorities-say","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/234627\/","title":{"rendered":"Pharaoh’s 3,000-year-old gold bracelet vanishes from museum in Egypt, authorities say"},"content":{"rendered":"

A 3,000-year-old gold bracelet has gone missing from a restoration laboratory of Cairo’s Egyptian Museum, the country’s antiquities ministry said.<\/p>\n

The bracelet, described as a golden band adorned with “spherical lapis lazuli beads,” belonged to King Amenemope, a pharaoh of Egypt’s 21st Dynasty (1070-945 BC).<\/p>\n

The ministry, in its statement issued late Tuesday<\/a>, did not specify when the piece was last seen.<\/p>\n

Egyptian media outlets said the loss was detected in recent days during an inventory check, though this could not be confirmed.<\/p>\n

An internal probe has been opened, and antiquities units across all Egyptian airports, seaports and land border crossings nationwide have been alerted, the ministry said.<\/p>\n

“In addition, an image of the missing bracelet has been circulated to antiquities units across all Egyptian airports, seaports, and land border crossings nationwide as a precautionary step to prevent smuggling attempts,” the ministry said, while posting an photo of the bracelet<\/a> on social media.<\/p>\n

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A 3,000-year-old gold bracelet has gone missing from a restoration laboratory of Cairo’s Egyptian Museum, the country’s antiquities ministry said.<\/p>\n

Egyptian antiquities ministry<\/p>\n

The case was not announced immediately to allow investigations to proceed, and a full inventory of the lab’s contents was underway, it added.<\/p>\n

The Egyptian Museum in Tahrir Square houses more than 170,000 artifacts, including the famed gold funerary mask of King Amenemope.<\/p>\n

The news of the bracelet came on the same day authorities in France announced that thieves stole gold samples<\/a> worth $700,000 from Paris’s Natural History Museum.<\/p>\n

The bracelet’s disappearance also comes just weeks before the scheduled Nov. 1 inauguration of the long-awaited Grand Egyptian Museum.<\/p>\n

One of the museum’s most iconic collections \u2014 the treasures of King Tutankhamun’s tomb<\/a> \u2014 is being prepared for transfer ahead of the opening, which is being positioned as a major cultural milestone under President Abdel Fattah al-Sisi’s government.<\/p>\n

In 2021, Egypt staged a high-profile parade transferring 22 royal mummies<\/a>, including Ramses II and Queen Hatshepsut, to the National Museum of Egyptian Civilization in Old Cairo \u2014 part of a broader effort to boost Egypt’s museum infrastructure and tourism appeal.<\/p>\n

Earlier this year, the United States returned to Egypt 25 stolen artifacts<\/a>, including fragments of what is believed to be a temple of Queen Hatshepsut. The rare pieces \u2014 spanning centuries of Egyptian civilization \u2014 were handed over following a three-year recovery effort by Egypt’s consulate in New York.<\/p>\n

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