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Deep Dive: Faience Workshop Found in Ancient Nubia
DURHAM, ENGLAND—According to a statement released by Antiquity, a faience workshop has been discovered at Sanam, a temple complex at the site of Napata, an ancient capital of the Kushite Empire in Nubia. The complex was built by Taharqo, the Kushite king who ruled from 690 to 664 B.C. Rennan Lemos of Durham University, Kathryn Howley of New York University, and their colleagues explained that faience workshops in Egypt were usually located on the edges of settlements because they produced noxious fumes and smoke.
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