The Pharaohs of West Waco Drive — mural in Waco, Texas
A stop on the Waco's Walls trail

95The Pharaohs of West Waco Drive

Egyptian fantasy wall attributed to Waco graffiti writer and muralist Skcoobaveli Trevino · spray paint · commissioned by 24 Stop Smoke Shop, 1812 W Waco Dr · know who painted it? Tell us.MURAL

A golden pharaoh, a teal Anubis the size of a truck, pyramids, and a UFO. On a convenience store.

No committee approved this, and it shows, gloriously. The parking-lot wall of a 24-hour corner shop hosts the most ambitious fantasy painting in Waco: a golden pharaoh bust glowing under a halo, pyramids on a purple desert horizon, a camel caravan, a winged scarab cradling a chrome orb — and striding through the middle of it, a teal-muscled Anubis warrior in a jeweled gold collar, painted with the confidence of someone who knew exactly how good it would look from a car doing thirty-five.

There's a UFO, too. Of course there's a UFO. The wall keeps going and gets stranger the farther you walk, tags and cartoons and in-jokes stacked like a graffiti crew's group chat made permanent. Nobody's name is on a plaque. A couple of tags are on the wall itself, the old-fashioned way. This is commissioned street art in its natural habitat: loud, uncredited, and better than it has any right to be.

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The Pharaohs of West Waco Drive — The Anubis wall, car-free and glorious
The Anubis wall, car-free and glorious
The Pharaohs of West Waco Drive — Wider — pharaoh, pyramids, UFO
Wider — pharaoh, pyramids, UFO
The Pharaohs of West Waco Drive — The far end gets weird (in a good way)
The far end gets weird (in a good way)