Amazing... Wonder who she was.

I',m wondering if the position of the body & what they found with her & on her is a compliment or an insult?
Curious.... especially since the lead archaeologist is a woman she may be wondering the same thing.
* Waiting for the criminology team... *
But ' they' romanized it already.
* As always.. Smfh *

11 hrs ago- Huffpost

In May after a 6 week expedition, in the Northern town of Ntswzier Ethiopia a grave was discovered & has been referred to as " Sleeping Beauty "
To archaeologists this grave is a 'tressure throve'

2 photos on link

http://m.huffpost.com/us/entry/7553482



[ SCIENCE
Grave Of Mysterious 'Sleeping Beauty' Discovered In Ethiopia
 1 day ago | Updated 1 day ago
Macrina Cooper-White Associate Science Editor, The Huffington Post
Archaeologists working in Ethiopia have discovered a remarkable treasure trove of artifacts dating back to the first and second centuries -- including the skeletal remains of a mysterious woman that some are calling "Sleeping Beauty."
“She was curled up on her side, with her chin resting on her hand, wearing a beautiful bronze ring," Louise Schofield, a former curator at the British Museum in London and the leader of the excavation, said of the woman, the Guardian reported. "She was buried gazing into an extraordinary Roman bronze mirror. She had next to her a beautiful and incredibly ornate bronze cosmetics spoon with a lump of kohl eyeliner.”

http://m.huffpost.com/us/entry/7553482

Queen of Sheba comes to mind

---------------------------------------------------------UPDATE -

https://news.artnet.com/art-world/archaeologists-unearth-2000-year-old-treasures-grave-ethiopian-sleeping-beauty-306748/


ART WORLD

Archaeologists Unearth 2,000-Year-Old Treasures in Grave of Ethiopian Sleeping Beauty

Sarah Cascone, Wednesday, June 10, 2015

The Ethiopian "Sleeping Beauty." Photo: Graeme Laidlaw.

A 2,000-year-old grave of a woman filled with treasures from the Roman Empire has been found in Northern Ethiopia. The British archaeologists who found the grave, have nicknamed the woman "sleeping beauty" because of the way her body had been positioned.

"She was curled up on her side, with her chin resting on her hand, wearing a beautiful bronze ring," Louise Schofield, a former British Museum curator who oversaw the dig, told the Guardian, which reported the story. "She was buried gazing into an extraordinary Roman bronze mirror. She had next to her a beautiful and incredibly ornate bronze cosmetics spoon with a lump of kohl eyeliner."

The grave is just one of 11 burial sites excavated during a six-week dig at the ancient city of Aksum, part of Africa's Aksumite kingdom, which flourished between 100–940 AD and was at one time believed to have been ruled by legendary Biblical figure the Queen of Sheba. (See Alexander the Great Tomb Yields Newly-Discovered Mosaic)

[The Queen of Sheba as depicted in the medieval manuscript Bellifortis. Photo via: Wikimedia Commons.
The Queen of Sheba as depicted in the medieval manuscript Bellifortis.
Photo via: Wikimedia Commons.]

“Ethiopia is a mysterious place steeped in legend, but nobody knows very much about it," said Schofield. Aksum is also said to the resting place of the Ark of the Covenant. (See Alexander the Great-Era Tomb Yields Amazing New Murals of 4th Century BC Life).

The contents of "Sleeping Beauty's" grave, which also include a clay jug, two intact Roman glass vessels, and an ornately beaded belt and necklace, both worn by the woman, are remarkably well-preserved because the grave was cut into a rock overhang. Schofield plans to analyze the jug to determine if she was given some kind of food or drink to accompany her on her journey to the afterlife.

The newly-uncovered artifacts will reportedly be given to a German-funded museum opening in October.

Queen of Sheba comes to mind