A 3,000-year-old gold bracelet has gone missing from a restoration laboratory of Cairo's Egyptian Museum, the country's antiquities ministry said.

The bracelet, described as a golden band adorned with "spherical lapis lazuli beads," belonged to King Amenemope, a pharaoh of Egypt's 21st Dynasty (1070-945 BC).

The ministry, in its statement issued late Tuesday, did not specify when the piece was last seen.

A terracotta vase containing three bronze medals linked to Pope Paul II has been unearthed beneath the foundations of Palazzetto Venezia during excavations for Rome’s Metro Line C.

The medals, believed to date back to 1465, were found carefully buried inside the 15th-century structure, offering new insight into construction traditions during the Renaissance and the history surrounding the building’s papal origins.

Mummies are most often associated with Egypt, where the oldest ones are about 4,500 years old. But researchers say they have found mummies that are much older, on the other side of the world.

“We found that in southern China and Southeast Asia, there were many archeological sites that contain human burials that are between four and 14,000 years old,” Professor Peter Bellwood, a co-author of the study, told NBC News in a phone interview on Tuesday.

In a landmark archaeological discovery, an Egyptian mission affiliated with the Supreme Council of Antiquities has unearthed a complete and previously unknown copy of the Canopus Decree, dating back to 238 BCE. The discovery was made at the Tell El-Fara’in archaeological site in the city of El-Husseiniya, located in Egypt’s Sharqia Governorate. This decree, originally issued by King Ptolemy III Euergetes, is one of the most significant royal edicts of the Ptolemaic period and was intended to honor the king, his wife Berenice II, and their daughter.

Archaeologists have uncovered a fragmented vessel depicting a warrior at Chankillo, the oldest solar observatory in the Americas, located in Peru’s Casma Valley.

This rare find links ancient solar ceremonies to the military and political power of elite groups over 2,300 years ago, offering new insights into the ceremonial and societal practices of the Casma culture.

Archaeologists have uncovered a 2,200-year-old Roman helmet during an underwater survey near the Aegadian Islands, off the western coast of Sicily. The rare find is linked to the First Punic War, fought between 264 and 241 BC, when Rome and Carthage battled for dominance in the western Mediterranean.

Archaeologists in Perugia, Italy, have uncovered an Etruscan urn decorated with a striking relief of Medusa —a snake-haired creature of Greek mythology— at the Palazzone Necropolis. The discovery, made during routine conservation work, revealed an unusual funerary deposit that challenges current views of Etruscan burial customs

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