Egypt asks UK to halt Christie's auction of King Tut sculpture saying the auction house must provide documents proving the statue's ownership
This photo shows one of Egypt's famed King Tutankhamun's golden sarcophaguses displayed at his tomb in a glass case at the Valley of the Kings in Luxor, Egypt .
The artifact features King Tut's full mouth with slightly drooping lower lips and almond-shaped eyes. In a statement late on Saturday, the Egyptian foreign ministry said that it had demanded the auction house provide documents proving the statue's ownership and that it reached out to British authorities and the UN culture and education agency "to stop the sale procedures" for it and other Egyptian objects included in the lot.A"Nested Fetus Coffin," is displayed as part of the"Tutankhamun and the Golden Age of the Pharoahs" exhibit in New York .
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