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<< Text Pages >> Statue of Taharqa - Carving in Sudan

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Multi-periodSite Name: Statue of Taharqa
Country: Sudan
NOTE: This site is 404.133 km away from the location you searched for.

Type: Carving
Nearest Town: Dangeil
Latitude: 18.133300N  Longitude: 33.983300E
Condition:
5Perfect
4Almost Perfect
3Reasonable but with some damage
2Ruined but still recognisable as an ancient site
1Pretty much destroyed, possibly visible as crop marks
0No data.
-1Completely destroyed
4 Ambience:
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4Good
3Ordinary
2Not Good
1Awful
0No data.
4 Access:
5Can be driven to, probably with disabled access
4Short walk on a footpath
3Requiring a bit more of a walk
2A long walk
1In the middle of nowhere, a nightmare to find
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1 Accuracy:
5co-ordinates taken by GPS or official recorded co-ordinates
4co-ordinates scaled from a detailed map
3co-ordinates scaled from a bad map
2co-ordinates of the nearest village
1co-ordinates of the nearest town
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Statue in Sudan. A massive one ton granite statue of the pharaoh Taharqa has been found in Dangeil, deep inside Sudan. Taharqa was a pharaoh of the 25th dynasty of Egypt. This was a period of Kushite rule, which means that Taharqa and his fellow rulers were from Nubia and drew their power-base from there.

The site is located approximately 350 km northeast of the modern Sudanese capital of Khartoum – in the general vicinity of the fifth Nile cataract.

In addition to Taharqa, archaeologists have found statues of two other Napatan kings at the site - Senkamanisken and Aspelta. Neither of these rulers controlled Egypt.

The announcement was made on the blog of Dr. Caroline Rocheleau of the North Carolina Museum of Art. A scholarly article was also published recently in the journal Nubia & Sudan.

The statues were found in 2008 but their discovery has not been made public until more recently.

No statue of a pharaoh has ever been found further south of Egypt than this one. “That’s one reason it’s so exciting and very interesting,” said Dr. Julie Anderson from the British Museum. The discovery was such a surprise that one colleague of Anderson's didn't believe it at first saying that the statues “can’t possibly be (at) Dangeil.”

More details, with photos and an interview at Heritage Key.



Note: Massive Taharqa statue discovered deep in Sudan, more southerly than of any other pharoah
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