by Dmitry ZAKS Agence France Presse LONDON, United Kingdom (AFP) — A 3,000-year-old quartzite head of Egyptian “Boy King” Tutankhamun was auctioned off for $6 million Thursday in London despite a fierce outcry from Cairo. Christie’s auction house sold the 28.5-centimetre (11-inch) relic for £4,746,250 ($5,970,000, 5,290,000 euros) at one of its most controversial auctions in years. No information about the buyer was disclosed. The famous pharaoh’s finely-chiselled face — its calm eyes and puffed […]
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Watch: Parts of buried huge Ramses II statue discovered near Cairo
An Egyptian-German team of archaeologists find an eight-meter statue submerged in ground water in a Cairo suburb that they say probably represents Pharaoh Ramses II, who ruled Egypt more than 3,000 years ago, as well as the upper part of a statue of Pharaoh Seti II, Ramses II’s grandson. (Courtesy AFPTV)





