The Full Feed from HuffingtonPost.com: African Princess Carving Found In Sudan Depicts Stylishly Overweight Ancient Royal

The Full Feed from HuffingtonPost.com The Full Feed from HuffingtonPost.com

African Princess Carving Found In Sudan Depicts Stylishly Overweight Ancient Royal Jan 3rd 2013, 17:24 By: Owen Jarus, LiveScience Contributor Published: 01/03/2013 09:21 AM EST on LiveScience A 2,000-year-old relief carved with an image of what appears to be a stylishly overweight princess has been discovered in an "extremely fragile" palace in the ancient city of Meroë, in Sudan, archaeologists say. At the time the relief was made, Meroë was the center of a kingdom named Kush, its borders stretching as far north as the southern edge of Egypt. It wasn't unusual for queens (sometimes referred to as "Candaces") to rule, facing down the armies of an expanding Rome. Read More... More on Sudan

You are receiving this email because you subscribed to this feed at blogtrottr.com. If you no longer wish to receive these emails, you can unsubscribe from this feed, or manage all your subscriptions