QUEEN PUABI,WHO WAS THIS WOMAN? I FIRST BECAME INTERESTED IN HER WHEN I ATTENDED THE PENN MUSUEM THE PREVIOUS YEAR. I WANTED TO SEE EACH AND EVERY ARTIFACT ON DISPLAY. NOW I HADN'T PREVIOUSLY BEEN INTERESTED IN ANCIENT MESOPOTAMIA. BUT ME BEING THE EVER CURIOUS PERSON I AM, DECIDED TO BROWSE IN THE SECTION LABELED ANCIENT MESOPOTAMIA(MODERN DAY IRAQ,TURKEY,SYRIA AND IRAN). WHEN I FIRST ENTERED I SAW NOTHING REALLY EXCITING.AFTER ALL I HAD ALREADY SAW THE ANCIENT AFRICAN,ASIAN AND EUROPEAN ARTIFACTS WHICH IN MY OPINION WERE AWESOME.SO HOW COULD ANYTHING FROM MESOPOTAMIA COMPARE? WHERE IS MESOPOTAMIA ANYWAYS? I THOUGHT TO MYSELF. I'VE ALWAYS BEEN TURNED ON BY LEARNING ABOUT PEOPLE OF PAST,ANCIENT CIVILIZATIONS. I WANTED SO BADLY TO BE AN ARCHAEOLOGIST(THANKS HOOKED ON PHONICS,LOL) WHEN I WAS YOUNGER BUT LIFE HAPPENED AND I DIDN'T PURSUE THAT PATH.BUT NONETHELESS I'M STILL INTRIGUED BY IT.AND I'M STILL A QUASI-ARCHAEOLOGIST,IN MY MIND ATLEAST. THERE IT WAS,WHEN I THOUGHT THINGS COULDN'T GET ANY BETTER! THE QUEEN PUABI DISPLAY. THE MOST BEAUTIFUL COSTUME I HAVE EVER SAW!!! AND ON TOP OF THAT,IT WAS DESIGNED SOME ESTIMATED 4,600 YEARS AGO. THE QUEEN WAS JUST 5 FEET TALL AND DIED WHEN SHE WAS AROUND 40.SEEING HER EARRINGS, I IMMEDIATELY SAW SOME FULANI INFLUENCE. ITS VERY POSSIBLE THAT THE FULANI HAD CONTACT WITH THE ANCIENT MESOPOTAMIANS. AS THE FULANI WERE ORIGINALLY NOMADIC HERDERS OF EAST AFRICA. EAST AFRICA AND THE MIDDLE EAST ARE DIVIDED BY THE GULF OF ADEN.LEADING TO YEMEN HINCE LEADING TO THE MIDDLE EAST. I'M SO INTRIGUED BY HER, SO MUCH SO THAT I'VE MADE A IMAGE OF HER COSTUME MY LOGO. PICTURED AT THE TOP OF MY PAGE. HOW DID SHE LOOK? HOW DID SHE SPEND HER DAYS? WAS SHE EDUCATED ON SOME LEVEL? DID SHE TRAVEL? DID ALL HER BEAUTIFUL GEMS MEAN ANTHING TO HER? GOLD IS ONLY VALUABLE BECAUSE WE HAVE DEEMED IT SO!! DID SHE KNOW THAT ONE DAY SHE WOULD SPARK SUCH QUESTIONS? DID SHE KNOW THAT PEOPLE LIKE HER WOULD KEEP OUR IMAGINATIONS ALIVE,EVEN AS ADULTS? DID SHE HAVE SOME ANSWERS TO THE SECRETS OF LIFE? SHE WAS REPORTLY BURIED WITH SOME 40 FEMALE SERVANTS,ALL KILLED TO BE HER SERVANTS IN THE AFTERLIFE.IT IS BELIEVED THAT THEY WERE ALL POISONED.I THEN PONDERED, IS REINCARNATION REAL? (IT SEEMS PLAUSIBLE THAT SOULS ARE RECYCLED). AND IF SO,HOW MANY TIMES HAS SHE COME BACK? WHERE IS SHE NOW? DOES SHE HAVE ANY MEMORY OF HER PAST LIFE? IN CONSCIOUSNESS, DOESN'T DEATH GIVE BIRTH TO LIFE? WHEN AN ANIMAL DIES IN THE WILD,IT FEEDS MANY LIFE FORMS.WHEN AN ANIMAL DIES FOR THE SAKE OF A HUMAN,IT DIES TO FEED US.HINCE DYING SO THAT WE MAY LIVE!! HMM THIS IS STARTING TO SOUND LIKE THE STORY OF CHRIST,KRISHNA,ZOROASTER-BUT THATS ANOTHER STORY,ANOTHER DAY,ANOTHER POST !!
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