{"id":100332,"date":"2019-07-05T01:17:44","date_gmt":"2019-07-04T23:17:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/2019\/07\/05\/bust-of-tutankhamun-sold-at-auction-for-4-7m-despite-egypt-protests\/"},"modified":"2019-07-05T01:17:44","modified_gmt":"2019-07-04T23:17:44","slug":"bust-of-tutankhamun-sold-at-auction-for-4-7m-despite-egypt-protests","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/?p=100332","title":{"rendered":"Bust of Tutankhamun sold at auction for \u00a34.7m despite Egypt protests"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The \u2018rare and beautiful\u2019 3,000-year-old sculpture goes under the hammer in defiance of claims it was stolen A brown quartzite head of young king Tutankhamun has sold at auction in London for more than \u00a34.7m despite Egyptian demands for its return.The more than 3,000-year-old sculpture, displayed at Christie\u2019s London auction house, shows the boy king taking the form of the ancient Egyptian god Amen. Continue reading&#8230;<br \/>\nVia: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/culture\/2019\/jul\/05\/bust-of-tutankhamun-sold-at-auction-for-47m-despite-egypt-protests\" target=\"_blank\">Bust of Tutankhamun sold at auction for \u00a34.7m despite Egypt protests<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The \u2018rare and beautiful\u2019 3,000-year-old sculpture goes under the hammer in defiance of claims it was stolen A brown quartzite head of young king Tutankhamun has sold at auction in London for more than \u00a34.7m despite Egyptian demands for its return.The more than 3,000-year-old sculpture, displayed at Christie\u2019s London auction [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-100332","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-english"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/100332","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=100332"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/100332\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=100332"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=100332"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=100332"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}