![]() ![]() The 27-inch-high grano-diorite statue is believed to depict Taharqa, the third king of Dynasty 25 in Egypt who ruled from 690-664 B.C. ![]() ![]() "The statue was certainly unloved and its significance unrecognized," says Wardley, "but when the Egyptologists saw the statue, they immediately thought we had something of exceptional importance." Karen Wardley, curator of archaeological collections at the God's House Tower museum remembered the small sculpture during a recent visit by local Egyptologists Hilary Wilson and Peter Funnell and invited them to the basement for a look. ![]() (Courtesy Karen Wardley, Southhampton City Council) Ī 2700-year-old statue of an Egyptian king was recently rediscovered in a British archaeological museum in Southampton, where it had languished in the basement among the museum staff's bicycles for almost a century. After almost a century in a basement, this 2,700-year-old statue has been heralded as an "incredibly exciting" find. ![]()
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