Then His Majesty found the road after the sand had taken it…And His Majesty brought a multitude of hands to carry away the sand…and His Majesty was using his own hands to carry away the sand himself before the multitudes of others for many days.
-Inscription on wall of Temple of Taharqa (690-664 BCE, Napatan Dynasty), Kawa, Sudanese Nubia
The Black Pharaoh Taharqa built this temple en route to Egypt while passing through Kawa, across the Nile from Dongola where we resupplied at the market stall of Hajj Bashir’s agent al-Amiri Yasīn on Day 25. It was sandy on our way too but now the road on both banks has been largely asphalted and the Temple itself has been moved to England, carried away by a multitude of hands.