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The Root image of the week: Queen of Sheba: Black and Beautiful

Anonymous (Bohemia), Queen of Sheba.
Illustration in Bellifortis by Conrad of Kyeser; before 1405
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(The Root) -- This image is part of a weekly series that The Root is presenting in conjunction with the Image of the Black in Western Art Archive at Harvard University's W.E.B. Du Bois Institute for African and African American Research. Click here or on the SOURCE link to read more about the image.

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