Thursday, July 12, 2012

Photo for Today - Taharqa shrine, Ashmolean Museum






King Taharqa shrine
Originally from Kawa, Nubia
690-644 BC 

Brought to Oxford in 1936 in hundreds of wooden crates.
The only free-standing Pharaonic building in Britain.


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