Monday 11 October 2010

Stone baboons return after more than 40 years

A pair of stone baboons – 2,500 years old and originally made to flank the entrance to a temple of Thoth in ancient Egypt – have been reinstated by the National Trust in the gardens at Cliveden, Buckinghamshire, UK, after an absence of half a century.

Read more: The Guardian

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