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  • Georgian Martyr Queen's Remains Found in Goa

    12/25/2013 2:54:19 PM PST · by SunkenCiv · 16 replies
    Archaeology ^ | Monday, December 23, 2013 | editors
    An arm bone retreived from the pieces of a stone sarcophogus found in the ruins of a church in Goa on the west coast of India likely belonged to Ketevan, the 17th century queen of the Kingdom of Kakheti in eastern Georgia. Literary sources say that when Kakheti was conquered by the Persians in 1613, Ketevan was taken prisoner. After refusing to join the Persian emperor's harem, she was tortured and killed 11 years later, and a portion of her body was said to have been taken to St. Augustine's Chuch in Goa and kept on a window. Since the...