Egypt says 3,000-year-old gold bracelet missing from museum

Cairo: A 3,000 year old gold bracelet has gone missing from a restoration laboratory of Cairo s Egyptian Museum, the country s antiquities ministry sa...

Cairo: 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.

The bracelet, described as a golden band adorned with "spherical lapis lazuli beads", dates to the reign of Amenemope, a pharaoh of Egypt's 21st Dynasty (1070-945 BC).

The ministry, in its statement issued late Tuesday, did not specify when the piece was last seen.

Egyptian media outlets said the loss was detected in recent days during an inventory check, though this could not be confirmed.

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.