Alarm at the Egyptian Museum of Cairo: a pharaonic treasure of 3,000 years ago stolen

An ancient three thousand year old gold bracelet, which belonged to the Faraone Amenemope, has mysteriously disappeared while it was inside a restoration laboratory of the Egyptian Museum of Cairo. A case that prompted the Egyptian authorities to launch a real treasure hunt on a national scale, fearing that it is a well -organized theft. The Ministry of Tourism and Antiquity has already sent the accident to the Prosecutor and set up a commission to check all the finds in the structure.

The alarm starts from the museum laboratory

According to the official version provided by the authorities, the Bracelet belonging to the Faraone Amenemopedating back to the XXI dynasty and dated between 993 and 984 BC, would have disappeared while being in the restoration phase. The object was described as a single piece: a solid gold jeweldecorated with a sphere of lapislazzulia precious stone much loved by the real Egyptians for its profound blue color, often dumped with gold.

The Ministry immediately activated one Emergency Commission To verify the presence of all other objects in the laboratory. The hypothesis of a commission theft is not excluded, given the historical and symbolic value of the bracelet.

The image of the finding on the borders and airports widespread

In the meantime, it was a photograph of the bracelet to the border authorities spreadin airports and in the main international crossings. The goal is clear: to prevent the find from illegally from Egypt. The disappearance was considered particularly serious because it concerns an object that was part of the funeral kit of a pharaoh, discovered in a tomb found in 1940 by French archaeologists Pierre Montet And Georges Goyon.

The Egyptian Museum confirmed that the bracelet was part of the same collection of the Funeral mask in golden wood of the Faraone Amnenemope, now exposed to the public.

The case reopened the debate on the protection of Egyptian cultural heritage, just as the controversies are growing for a project of mega tourist resorts under construction near the Monte Sinaia sacred place according to biblical tradition. The fear of many scholars and activists is that the uncontrolled development of luxury tourism can threaten the integrity of historical and archaeological areas of immense value.