Georgian Martyr Queen's Remains Found in Goa

Archaeology ^ | Monday, December 23, 2013 | editors

[SunkenCiv]

An arm bone retreived from the pieces of a stone sarcophogus found in the ruins of a church in Goa on the west coast of India likely belonged to Ketevan, the 17th century queen of the Kingdom of Kakheti in eastern Georgia. Literary sources say that when Kakheti was conquered by the Persians in 1613, Ketevan was taken prisoner. After refusing to join the Persian emperor's harem, she was tortured and killed 11 years later, and a portion of her body was said to have been taken to St. Augustine's Chuch in Goa and kept on a window. Since the mid-1800s, the church has fallen into ruin, but Georgian and Indian archaeologists managed to recover an arm bone from what was left of the stone box. Analysis of mitochondrial DNA from the bone suggests its much more likely to have come from a Georgian than an Indian, providing a tantalizing clue that it could be Ketevan's.

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St. Queen Ketevan(Wikimedia Commons)

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[vladimir998]

Further proof Muslims suck.

[Tax-chick]

After refusing to join the Persian emperor's harem, she was tortured and killed 11 years later ...

Don't rush yourselves or anything.

[TigersEye]

That had a really long court docket in those days.

[Tax-chick]

So many people to torture and kill, so little time.

[NYer]

These historical sources stated that Ketevan's palm and arm bone fragments were kept inside a stone urn beneath a specific window within the Chapter Chapel of the Augustinian convent. - Ketevan the Martyr

Catholic ping!

[SunkenCiv]

Maybe they were takin’ their time, gettin’ it right.

[TigersEye]

People think it's easy being a bloodthirsty conqueror.
You should walk a meter in their gold and silk royal
slippers before criticizing. ;^P

[353FMG]

ROP

[ZULU]

Rapists, torturers, enslavers, murderers, you name - it all covers Mohammedans.

[Scrambler Bob]

Gotta tweak it a little here and there.

[RichInOC]

What, and miss out on all the fun?

[RichInOC]

No, but seriously, fascinating.

[Bigg Red]

RIP, martyr queen.

[colorado tanker]

Hmmm. I did some checking because this article doesn’t make much sense. The Queen was tortured and murdered because she would not convert to Islam. Maybe the Shah wanted in her knickers too, but religion was the issue. Remains were taken away to Goa to be housed in a Christian convent. Portuguese missionaries are supposed to have witnessed her martyrdom.

[SunkenCiv]

Thanks ct.