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The task of shooing hyenas away from the graves of the illustrious dead.”
Three major museums illustrate Edinburgh’s fascinating history, with one holding a collection revealing the annals of Scotland’s past and the lives of her most illustrious sons and daughters.
With views across the city below it is a popular spot for photographs, however it also has a long and illustrious history.
It has seen such illustrious guests as Winston Churchill and Agatha Christie, who wrote her thriller Death on the Nile while staying here.
The more than 50 museums — featuring everything from the worlds most prominent artists, to the history of hemp — quench the thirst for even the most ardent culture buff, and with 6,000 buildings from the 16th, 17th, and 18th centuries, the reflections of its illustrious history happily ripple on into the 21st century.