Egypt to sue Christie's to retrieve £4.7m Tutankhamun bust
These are external links and will open in a new window/ The 3,000-year-old, brown quartzite head of Tutankhamun was part of a statue of the God Amen Egypt says it will instruct a law firm in the UK to file a civil suit over the sale last week of a Tutankhamun bust. The sculpture of the pharaoh was bought for £4.7m ($6m) at Christie's auction house in London, despite Egypt warning it was probably stolen in the 1970s. Antiquities Minister Khaled al-Enany told the BBC that he would try to repatriate the artefact. Christie's said all necessary ...
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