Jewels From an Ethiopian Grave Reveal 2,000-Year-Old Link To Rome

Posted by samzenpus on Sunday June 7, 2015 @11:26PM from the back-in-the-day dept.

An anonymous reader writes: Archaeologists have discovered jewels from an Ethiopian grave that revealed a 2,000-year-old link to Rome. Louise Schofield, a former British Museum curator, and her team of 11 excavated the ancient city of Aksum for six weeks where the artifacts were found. The treasures offer evidence that the Romans were trading in Aksum hundreds of years earlier than previously thought. Schofield said: “Every day we had shed-loads of treasure coming out of all the graves. I was blown away: I’d been confident we’d find something, but not on this scale."

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Worth anything? by skovnymfe · 2015-06-07 23:42 · Score: 4, Interesting

All these treasures, are they worth anything? Will the Ethiopian people see a penny from all these treasures? Will they even see the treasures? Does anyone even care about Ethiopians?