{"id":616665,"date":"2009-12-30T07:17:00","date_gmt":"2009-12-30T12:17:00","guid":{"rendered":"tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6760875.post-6028898244669031268"},"modified":"2009-12-30T07:18:50","modified_gmt":"2009-12-30T12:18:50","slug":"massive-statue-of-egyptian-ruler-taharqa-found-deep-inside-sudan","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/616665","title":{"rendered":"Massive statue of Egyptian ruler Taharqa found deep inside Sudan"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/heritage-key.com\/blogs\/owenjarus\/massive-statue-egyptian-ruler-taharqa-found-deep-inside-sudan?utm_source=feedburner&amp;utm_medium=feed&amp;utm_campaign=Feed%3A+hkdigest+%28Heritage+Key+Digest%29&amp;utm_content=Google+Reader\">Heritage Key<\/a> (Owen Jarus)<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<div style=\"text-align: justify;\">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.<\/p>\n<p>The site is located approximately 350 km northeast of the modern Sudanese capital of Khartoum \u2013 in the general vicinity of the fifth Nile cataract.<\/p>\n<p>In addition to Taharqa, archaeologists have found statues of two other Napatan kings at the site &#8211; Senkamanisken and Aspelta. Neither of these rulers controlled Egypt.<\/div>\n<\/blockquote>\n<div class=\"blogger-post-footer\">Egyptology News Blog, Andie Byrnes<img width='1' height='1' src='https:\/\/blogger.googleusercontent.com\/tracker\/6760875-6028898244669031268?l=egyptology.blogspot.com' alt='' \/><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Heritage Key (Owen Jarus) 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 [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":288,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"advanced_seo_description":"","jetpack_seo_html_title":"","jetpack_seo_noindex":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4821],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-616665","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p9NivD-2Aqd","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/616665","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/288"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=616665"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/616665\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=616665"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=616665"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=616665"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}