Authorities across Egypt are searching for a 3,000-year-old bracelet reported missing from a leading museum in Cairo. The rare gold band, adorned with spherical lapis lazuli beads, dates back to the reign of King Amenemope, a pharaoh of ancient Egypt's 21st Dynasty who ruled from 993 to 984 BC. The antiquities ministry stated it had taken immediate measures after the bracelet disappeared from the Egyptian Museum's restoration laboratory, and the case has been referred to police. An image of the bracelet has been circulated to all Egyptian airports, seaports, and land border crossings as a precautionary step to prevent smuggling attempts. Furthermore, a specialist committee has been formed to carry out an inventory and review of all artefacts at the restoration laboratory. The ministry delayed announcing the bracelet's disappearance to ensure a conducive environment for investigations despite not revealing when the piece was last seen. The disappearance was detected as museum staff prepared to ship artefacts to Rome for an upcoming exhibition. The Egyptian Museum in Cairo, the oldest archaeological museum in the Middle East, houses over 170,000 artefacts, including Amenemope's gilded wooden funerary mask. This incident comes just six weeks before the opening of the Grand Egyptian Museum in Giza, where treasures from King Tutankhamun's tomb will be displayed.