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A U.K. family selling a variety of items at auction got way more than they bargained for when a pair of statues they believed to be replicas sold for a price that suggests they're actual antiquities.
The badly weathered lumps of stone were originally thought to be 18th or 19th century replicas and valued at between £300 and £500 by Mander Auctioneers of Sudbury, Suffolk.
The objects, which sat in the garden of a local couple for 15 years, are believed to be actual ancient Egyptian artifacts.
Garden statues turn out to be ancient Egyptian relics worth $265k