According to a report from this station, the Sword of Goujian, King of Yue, from the Spring and Autumn period has vanished from its display at the Jingzhou Museum in Hubei.
A bronze-and-gold mask has also vanished from the Sanxingdui Museum in Sichuan.
According to staff from the local cultural bureau, there was nobody else in the exhibition halls last night, and the surveillance footage captured no figures at all.
The two national treasures disappeared at exactly the same time, down to the second.
Whether the incidents are connected remains under investigation.
