The enduring mystery of an ancient Egyptian king’s smashed sculpture
The sculpture was crafted out of “a piece of graywacke, a metamorphic rock only quarried in the ancient Near East in Wadi Hammamat,” supporting the notion that the artifact came from Egypt.
The unidentified sculpture of an ancient Egyptian king discovered near the upper galilee in 1995.(photo credit: Courtesy)ByDANIEL K. EISENBUD