*Wednesday 30th October, 7 to 8.30 p.m., in Arts Faculty Lecture Room 1, 3- 5, Woodland Road:
The LAND of SHEBA - NEW DISCOVERIES
Talk, illustrated with slides, by Alexandra Porter, Assistant Curator for the exhibition ‘Queen of Sheba- Treasures from Ancient Yemen’, and archaeologist in Yemen, Dept of the Ancient Near East, the British Museum:
The pre-Islamic civilisation of Southern Arabia, the heart of which was located in present-day Yemen, is among the least understood cultures of the ancient Near east. In the last few decades, however, there have been a great number of exciting new discoveries in Yemen, especially in the Sabaean kingdom, the fabled home of the Queen of Sheba, and archaeologists are now making headway piecing together the history and chronology of this magnificent and mysterious civilisation.