A gold bracelet with a blue bead on it
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() Egyptian authorities are on the case after a rare gold bracelet belonging to 21st Dynasty Pharaoh Amenemope went missing from a museum in Cairo.

According to Egypt’s Ministry of Tourism and Antiquities, the 3,000-year-old bracelet was being restored in a lab at the Egyptian Museum in Cairo when it went missing. It was among a collection of artifacts headed to a museum in Rome for an exhibition that’s set to start in October.

The ministry told the BBC they sent out a picture of the bracelet to airports, seaports and land border crossings across Egypt to help prevent it from being smuggled out of the country. It has a lapis lazuli bead on it, which is said to have been highly prized in ancient Egypt for its association with the gods and healing powers.

A gold bracelet with a blue bead on it
The missing gold bracelet belonging to Pharaoh Amenemope. (Ministry of Tourism and Antiquities)

A specialized committee has also been formed to carry out an inventory and review of all artifacts being kept at the restoration lab to make sure nothing else has gone missing.

This is not the only high-profile theft that has occurred in Egypt. In 1977, Vincent van Gogh’s Poppy Flowers painting, which was valued at $55 million, was stolen from the Mohamed Mahmoud Khalil Museum in Cairo and was recovered in 1979. It was then stolen again in 2010 and has not been recovered.

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