Authorities in Egypt are on the hunt for a 3,000-year-old gold bracelet, once owned by a pharaoh , which has disappeared from the Egyptian Museum in Cairo.

The gold bracelet adorned with a lapis lazuli bead was last seen in the restoration laboratory of the museum in Tahrir Square, Egypt’s Ministry of Tourism and Antiquities said in a statement. The matter has now been referred to law enforcement and the public prosecution office, it added.

An image of the bracelet has been distributed to all airports, seaports and land border crossings in the country “as a precautionary step to prevent smuggling attempts,” the statement, posted on Facebook , said. The museum’s director general clarified that some pictures circulating of a bracelet online were not of the missing item but of another c

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