Perhaps they even envision some assemblage of overgrowth obscuring a remarkable work of ancient art. What’s probably never imagined is having to clear away centuries of bird poop. Yes ...

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 wading bird with long legs and a long beak). He was the ...

Native to Africa, Iraq and Yemen, a pair of sacred ibis were brought to France from Egypt in the 1700s. A century later, the bird species was spotted in the wild in Austria and Italy. In France ...