As part of a sub project to the British Museum’s excavations in Amara West in Sudan curator Manuela Lehmann and inspector Mohamed Saad commissioned a local carpenter to make a wooden angareeb bed based on ancient fragments excavated from tombs. These beds can still be found in every house in the area and their design has barely changed in over 3,000 years.

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