For years, employees of the God’s House Tower Archaeology Museum in
Southampton, England, propped their bikes against a 27 inch black rock
in the basement. In 2000, two Egyptologists investigating the Museums
holdings identified the bike rack as a 7th century BC Egyptian statue
portraying King Taharqa a Kushite monarch from the region that is modern
Sudan. Karen Wordley, the Southampton city council’s curator of
archaeological collections, said it was a “mystery” how the sculpture
ended up in the Museum basement.
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