Overview
- Museum staff noticed the bracelet was missing while preparing items for a planned exhibition in Rome.
- The Interior Ministry says a restorer stole the piece from a safe, sold it for about €3,100, and it was later resold and melted.
- Police reported multiple arrests connected to the alleged theft and subsequent resale.
- The Antiquities Ministry circulated a photo of the bracelet to airports, seaports and customs to discourage smuggling attempts.
- The artifact, decorated with a lapis-lazuli bead and attributed to Pharaoh Amenemope, adds to a pattern of past losses at the Cairo museum in 2004 and 2011.