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A pair of carved stone statues used as garden ornaments have sold for more than £195,000 ($265,510) after it was revealed that they were ancient Egyptian relics dating back thousands of years, an auction house has said.

A PAIR of garden ornament sphinxes valued at £300 turned out to be from ancient Egypt and sold for £195,000.The badly weathered stone lumps had been

A pair of carved stone Sphinx Statues sold at Mandeer auctioneers in Sudbury, Suffolk for £195,000— it turns out they were genuine Ancient Egyptian artifacts.

A family from Clare in Suffolk wanted to sell two stone sphinx statues that they thought were replicas. When they were sold at Mander Auxtioneers they were found to be real and fetched £195,000