هينة بنت وهب، امرأة نبطية حِجْرية من القرن الأول الميلادي

What is it about?

This article is about a Nabataean woman of the 1st century CE lived in Hegra/Mada'in Salih, Saudi Arabia today, and built a tomb for herself and her descendants. The tomb with the text was recorded since the the 20th century, but her tomb was excavated in 2008 where 80 skeletons were found. She was later been impersonalized into a 3d imagery based on her dna and the skeleton of the tomb.

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Why is it important?

The first tomb to be excavated that had a text and belongs to a woman from the Nabataean era of first century CE.

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