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Christi D. Tran, ’04, and Brian J Queen, the manager of Ben and Jerry’s in Harvard Square, came up with the idea for the fundraiser. Tran noted that PBHA does not usually raise money for political ends and emphasized the humanitarian goals of Peace Pops...
...students passing by the Science Center tomorrow at lunchtime should buy one of the Ben & Jerry’s “peace pops” sold there for dessert. In an effort coordinated by the Phillips Brooks House Association, volunteers will be selling ice cream donated by Brian Queen, the manager of the local Ben & Jerry’s franchise. The pops will be sold for their normal price of $3, and all of the proceeds will go to the American Red Cross Disaster Relief Fund...
...excavations have also showed that the temple was a major pilgrimage center long before the Queen of Sheba was born. The evidence - inscriptions, wall paintings, fragments of bronze statues, pottery vessels, animal bones and 2,000-year-old pieces of frankincense that still retain their distinctive fragrance - indicates that the site was used continuously from at least 1200 B.C. until the 6th century A.D. The potsherds are particularly important, Glanzman says. "They may be the key to sequencing the archaeological history of the region. The technology is very sophisticated and shows a high level of civilization." References in the inscriptions...
...Many of the hundreds of inscriptions date from about the 8th century B.C. to the 4th century A.D. Although the oldest ones were carved several centuries after the Queen's lifetime, they contain priceless information about her kingdom's political and social history, including a chronology of Sabaean kings (the first that researchers have found), as well as the names of other important visitors to Mahram Bilqis and their genealogies and tribal affiliations. Since some of the names are female, one of them could be that of the Queen of Sheba...
...goal of discovering the Queen's true identity, the task may well prove impossible. "In order to know who she was, we would need to find an inscription in Hebrew, and find it on an object that was unequivocally linked to the 10th century B.C.," Glanzman says. "That's like trying to find a needle in a haystack that's been buried under 10 meters of sand...