Ms Gilroy said her husband believed the statue depicted an ancient Egyptian god known as Thoth. She said his theory was based on a papyrus flower symbol which he believed had been carved between ...

The sun and the moon, in the timeless stone we'd carve. Great statues, such forms, we revere, we adore, The ancient Egyptian gods. Thoth was often shown with the head of a baboon or an ibis (a ...