Egyptians try to reverse sale over clause on profit

Antiquities dealers could find their trade in legally exported artefacts threatened despite due diligence if the Egyptian government succeeds in reversing Sotheby’s sale of a granite bust of Ramses II.

The 19th dynasty artefact was the top lot at the controversial auction of antiquities from the Chart…

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