{"id":126219,"date":"2019-07-05T21:50:41","date_gmt":"2019-07-05T21:50:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.bnreport.com\/auction-of-stolen-king-tut-bust-in-london-rattles-egypt\/"},"modified":"2019-07-05T21:50:41","modified_gmt":"2019-07-05T21:50:41","slug":"auction-of-stolen-king-tut-bust-in-london-rattles-egypt","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bnreport.com\/en\/auction-of-stolen-king-tut-bust-in-london-rattles-egypt\/","title":{"rendered":"Auction of \u2018stolen\u2019 King Tut bust in London rattles Egypt"},"content":{"rendered":"<pre><code>      A bust of the boy-pharaoh Tutankhamun sold at Christies auction house in London for $6 million, angering the Egyptian authorities, who say the statue is cultural treasure looted by tomb raiders.       \n<\/code><\/pre>\n<p>Egyptian officials claim that the bust was stolen several decades ago, and had called on the auction to be called off. Christies responded that there was nothing improper about the sale and that it had been on display for years before without complaint.<\/p>\n<p><em>\u201cThe object is not, and has not been, the subject of an investigation,\u201d<\/em> Christie&#039;s, one of the worlds oldest auction houses, said in a statement. The auction proceeded as planned on Thursday.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.rt.com\/usa\/442673-assyrian-sculpture-auction-iraq-theft\/\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" target=\"_blank\">                           Also on rt.com             Art theft? Iraq demands return of 3,000-yr-old Assyrian artefact up for auction in New York                            <\/a><\/p>\n<p>Christies management says that the bust was owned by the German prince Wilhelm von Thurn as far back as the 1960s, and was later sold to a gallery in Vienna, Austria. This account is contested by the princes children as well as a close friend of his, who say he did not own the piece, according to a recent investigation by <a href=\"https:\/\/www.livescience.com\/65790-king-tut-statue-investigation.html\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" target=\"_blank\">LiveScience<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Britain has a long history of controversies involving historical artifacts acquired through a variety of means during the countrys past as an imperial power. Examples include a dispute with Greece over the Elgin Marbles, which Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn has pledged to return should he become prime minister. The government of Ethiopia has lodged a formal complaint about a number of items, believed to have been seized during the British capture of Maqdala in 1868.<\/p>\n<p>Modern-day Nigeria has also accused the UK of looting precious artifacts from the historical Kingdom of Benin. The British Museum in London holds the second-largest collection of the Kingdoms art in the world.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.rt.com\/uk\/265231-british-museum-syria-artefact\/\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" target=\"_blank\">                           Also on rt.com             \u200bBritish Museum protecting sto<\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/www.rt.com\/news\/463476-king-tut-auction-stolen\/?utm_source=rss&amp;utm_medium=rss&amp;utm_campaign=RSS\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>Read More \u2013 Source<\/strong><\/a><br \/>\n[contf]<br \/>\n[contfnew]<br \/>\n        <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/upload.wikimedia.org\/wikipedia\/commons\/thumb\/a\/a0\/Russia-today-logo.svg\/1200px-Russia-today-logo.svg.png\" \/><\/p>\n<h5><a href=\"http:\/\/rt.com\/\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" target=\"_blank\">RT<\/a><\/h5>\n<p>[contfnewc]<br \/>\n[contfnewc]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A bust of the boy-pharaoh Tutankhamun sold at Christies auction house in London for $6 million, ange..<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":126220,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[46],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-126219","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-politics"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.9 - 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