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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 scruffy garden statues from Suffolk have fetched nearly £200,000 at auction after turning out to be ancient Egyptian Sphinxes. | ITV News Anglia
When a family decided to get rid of their scruffy garden statues, they were surprised to find that the sphinxes were genuine artifacts from Ancient Egypt.
The auctioneer says the buyers "seemed to think they are actually Egyptian".
A pair of carved stone statues used as garden ornaments have sold for more than £195,000 (US$265,510) after it was revealed that they were ancient Egyptian relics dating back thousands of years, an auction house has said.