Christie’s goes forward with King Tut statue auction

LONDON (AP) — Christie’s is going forward with the auction of a 3,000-year-old stone sculpture of the famed boy pharaoh Tutankhamun despite protests from the Egyptian government.
The brown quartzite head depicting King Tut is set to go up for auction on Thursday. The sale could generate more than $5 million.
The Egyptian Foreign Ministry has demanded that the auction house provide documents proving the statue’s ownership and said Egypt holds rights to the piece based on its cur