Do not deny her existence in Ethiopia, however. But when it comes to the Queen of Sheba there is a great story yet no concrete evidence to support it. The extent of her influence or power will forever remain a mystery.Whereas Lucy’s fossilised bones are real nothing is known of her story. Johanson found 40 per cent of her skeleton in 1974, and named her Lucy after the Beatles song – though her Ethiopian descendants prefer to call her Dinknesh. An American – French team of physical anthropologists led by Donald C. She was a dainty little person, an intrepid walker who came down from the trees some three million years ago in the Afar region of eastern Ethiopia. Lucy, alias Dinknesh – literally “you are lovely” – is the first woman in Ethiopian history, indeed in the history of the world. Rita Pankhurst recalls how women have been as important and influential as any man.” “Highly placed Ethiopian women, who combined worldliness, politics and religion are seen again and again in Ethiopian history.
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