Wednesday, June 17, 2015

Roman artifacts found in Ethiopia

2,000-year-old Roman artifacts have been found in eleven graves uncovered in Ethiopia.

She was particularly excited about the grave of a woman she has named “Sleeping Beauty”. The way the body and its grave goods had been positioned suggest that she had been beautiful and much-loved.

Schofield said: “She was curled up on her side, with her chin resting on her hand, wearing a beautiful bronze ring. 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.”

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Story: Dalya Alberge, The Guardian | Photo: Graeme Laidlaw

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