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A breathtaking treasure reveals the power of the woman buried with it

The silver diadem and other bling interred with a woman some 3,700 years ago mark her high status.
A tarnished silver band with a disc descending from it, on a dark blue background.

An Early Bronze Age woman was buried in this silver diadem, which would have been worn with the disc on the forehead or nose. Credit: J.A. Soldevilla/ASOME, UAB

She was buried some 3,700 years ago, inside a large clay jar. But archaeologists say that the bracelets on her wrist, the heavy silver diadem still clinging to her temple and the trove of expensive silver ornaments at her side mark the mysterious woman as a powerful figure — and perhaps even a young queen.

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Nature 591, 349 (2021)

doi: https://doi.org/10.1038/d41586-021-00637-4

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