Bangkokians rush to Grand Palace to admire stone ballast figures


The statues were found by the Royal Household Bureau while it was performing road maintenance recently. - The Nation/Asia News Network

BANGKOK (The Nation/Asia News Network): Tourists headed to the Grand Palace during the long weekend to admire the 100 or so stone statues unearthed recently from under the complex’s walls.

The statues were found by the Royal Household Bureau while it was performing road maintenance recently. Upon discovering the statues, the bureau contacted the Fine Arts Department to dig them up, restore them and put them on display in the courtyard of the Emerald Buddha Temple (Wat Phra Kaew).

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