A specialist took the gold artefact from a Cairo museum and sold it through a jeweller, officials say.

Un brazalete de oro de la dinastía XXI desaparece del laboratorio de restauración del Museo Egipcio, en pleno centro de El Cairo.

A photo of the 3,000-year-old bracelet has been sent to airports, seaports and border crossings to stop it being smuggled out of the country.