Thanks JennysCool. No ping, just adding.
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Posted on 02/15/2012 1:22:52 PM PST by ColdOne
A British archaeologist working in northern Ethiopia believes she may have discovered an ancient goldmine that holds clues about where the Queen of Sheba obtained her storied wealth.
Louise Schofield, a former curator at the British Museum, told The Observer she was alerted to the mine by a gold prospector while working on an environmental development project in Ethiopia's Tigray region.
The shaft, buried some four feet (1.2 meters) underground with an ancient human skull embedded in its entrance, apparently had not attracted much attention, even though locals panned for gold in a nearby river.
The site is within the former territory of the nearly 3,000-year-old Sheba kingdom, which scholars believe spanned from Ethiopia to Yemen. Schofield pointed to nearby clues that suggest the site was an important place in the ancient civilization, including a 20-foot (six-meter) stone slab carved with a sun and crescent moon -- a "calling card of the land of Sheba," she told The Observer.
Sheba ping!
I thought for a minute it was Obama that was the archaeologist, who found the pot of gold by finding a bunch of blank executive order forms and the Queen of Sheba was Moochelle. My stories were really mixed up because Obama would never treat the US Treasury as his own personal gold mine to satisfy the pecuniary interests of Moochelle.
Must’ve been a dream.
Thanks I do not know how I missed that! Duh!
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“ancient human skull embedded in its entrance”
Prester John? Maybe Alan Quartermain.
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