Sanam

Remains of Taharqo’s temple at Sanam, viewed from the southeast in December 2008, before the 2018–2020 excavations discussed here. This is a view of the temple, not the excavated workshop. Photograph: Bertramz. Source · CC BY-SA 3.0. Resized and recompressed without cropping or colour changes. A royal object can conceal the work that made it possible. A small glazed figure placed in a tomb seems to belong to the world of kings and ritual. Its manufacture belongs to another world: materials gathered and ground, mixtures prepared, moulds filled and fires tended. At Sanam, in northern Sudan, archaeology is bringing those worlds back together. ...