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The Egypt display itself is captivating: The gallery housing the small building called the Shrine of Taharqa has a "daylight" ceiling so you can see the detail of the splendid carved reliefs, and even peer at the spot-lit god inside it.
More Beauty in Oxford Paul Levy 2011
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The shrine of Taharqa, shipped in crates from Sudan to England in 1936, broods at the centre of the renovated Griffith Gallery under a glazed vault designed by Mather that, in the absence of razor-sharp Egyptian sunshine, serves to highlight the incised carvings around the 2,600-year-old structure.
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Highlights include the shrine of Taharqa from the Temple of Kawa c680BC, the only complete freestanding pharaonic building in Britain, statues of the fertility god, Min, carved around 3300BC and a wall painting in a remarkably naturalistic style of the daughters of Nefertiti and AkhenatenAnd there is truly something for every taste.
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Will Smith is a natural for the role of Taharqa the Nubian king.
Will Smith's Last Pharaoh vs. Egypt's History by Hollywood Aladdin Elaasar 2010
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Will Smith is a natural for the role of Taharqa the Nubian king.
Aladdin Elaasar: Will Smith's Last Pharaoh vs. Egypt's History by Hollywood 2010
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(Variety) - Will Smith getting jiggy with King Tut, will play Taharqa, an Egyptian king in “The Last Pharaoh.”
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Smith, who has long wanted to play the pharaoh, brought Wallace the Taharqa story.
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He is set to write the story that centers on Taharqa battles with Esarhaddon, Assyrain leader, around 677B.C.
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“Braveheart” scribe Randall Wallace will write “The Last Pharaoh,” a Columbia drama crafted as a vehicle for Smith to play Taharqa, the pharaoh who battled Assyrian invaders in ancient Egypt.
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Taharqa was an avid builder both in Nubia and Egypt, where a 63-foot-high column from the colonnade he built in the first court of the temple of Amun at Karnak still stands.
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