{"id":5400,"date":"2020-07-04T19:24:21","date_gmt":"2020-07-04T19:24:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.sportsnewsforyou.com\/?p=5400"},"modified":"2020-07-04T19:24:21","modified_gmt":"2020-07-04T19:24:21","slug":"egypt-asks-interpol-to-recover-tutankhamun-statue-sold-by-christies","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/googmn.com\/?p=5400","title":{"rendered":"Egypt asks Interpol to recover Tutankhamun statue sold by Christie&#8217;s"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Egypt has requested Interpol help track down a 3,000-year-old sculpture of pharaoh Tutankhamun sold last week by at Christie\u2019s in the UK, escalating a bitter row between the two countries over the \u201cstolen\u201d relic.<\/p>\n<p>Christie&#8217;s auction house in London sold the 11in brown quartz bust for \u00a34.7 million to an anonymous buyer in early July at one of its most controversial auctions in years.<\/p>\n<p>Zahi Hawass, Egypt&#8217;s former Minister of Antiquities, said that the piece appeared to have been looted in the 1970s from the Karnak Temple complex just north of Luxor.<\/p>\n<p>In an extremely rare intervention, Egypt&#8217;s National Committee for Antiquities Repatriation asked the UK Foreign Office and the UN cultural body Unesco to step in and halt the sale.<\/p>\n<p>It suggested its failure to do so could have an impact on cultural relations between the allies and &quot;the ongoing cooperation between both countries in the field of archaeology, especially that there are 18 British archaeological missions are working in Egypt.&quot;<\/p>\n<figure>\n<noscript><\/noscript><figcaption>\nTutankhamun has been the subject of numerous archaeological exhibitions around the worldCredit:<br \/>\nFRANCOIS GUILLOT\/AFP\/Getty Images<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>The committee released a statement late on Monday saying it had hired a British law firm to file a lawsuit against Christie&#8217;s, saying the auction house did not provide documents proving ownership.<\/p>\n<p>Christie&#8217;s has denied any wrongdoing, saying it carried out &quot;extensive due diligence&quot; to verify the provenance of the statue and had &quot;gone beyond what is required to assure legal title.&quot;<\/p>\n<p>The auction house has published a chronology of how the relic changed hands between European art dealers over the past 50 years and told AFP that it would &quot;not sell any work where there isn&#8217;t clear title of ownership.&quot;<\/p>\n<p>Egypt&#8217;s campaign to recover lost art gained momentum after numerous works went missing during the looting that accompanied former president Hosni Mubarak&#8217;s fall from power in 2011.<\/p>\n<p>Cairo has managed to regain hundreds of looted and stolen artefacts by working with both auction houses and international cultural groups.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Egypt has requested Interpol help track down a 3,000-year-old sculpture of pharaoh Tutankhamun sold last week by at Christie\u2019s in the UK, escalating a bitter row between the two countries over the \u201cstolen\u201d relic. Christie&#8217;s auction house in London sold the 11in brown quartz bust for \u00a34.7 million to an anonymous buyer in early July&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5400","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/googmn.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5400","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/googmn.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/googmn.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/googmn.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/googmn.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=5400"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/googmn.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5400\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/googmn.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=5400"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/googmn.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=5400"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/googmn.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=5400"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}