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Red, Yellow and Egyptian Blue: Oxford’s Ashmolean Brings Back the Lost Colours of the Shrine of Taharqa

4. November 2026 by sl1 - Assistant de galerie

Bright comic of a smiling Sudanese scientist and a young boy in front of an ancient sandstone shrine lit in red, yellow and blue by a projector

Hyperspectral imaging found traces of yellow and Egyptian blue on Britain’s only freestanding pharaonic building; from 13 November a free digital projection will recolour the Kushite shrine.

Categories Museums & Institutions Tags Ashmolean Museum, Egyptian blue, hyperspectral imaging, Kush, Oxford, Shrine of Taharqa, Sudan

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