The Hunt For The Queen Of Sheba's Legendary Treasure | Myth Hunters | Odyssey

According to the great stories of the Bible, King Solomon, son of David, ruled Israel 3,000 years ago. He was famous for his wisdom, his women, and his amazing wealth. King Solomon surpassed all the kings of the earth in wealth and wisdom and when the rich were powerful and exotic The Queen of Sheba visited King Solomon, brought him gifts from the mystical land of Ophiia and arrived in Jerusalem with a very large entourage with camels carrying spices and much gold, but where was the hearing from, where did everything come from? Did that gold even exist? For thousands of years, ancient Greeks, Renaissance adventurers, Victorian explorers, and modern scientists have searched for the source of Solomon's gold, a mysterious place that would become known as the Minds of King Solomon.

This is the story of a man who really believed he had found them and found something, but it was not what he expected. Carl Mal, the explorer who would be forever linked with the Discovery of the Minds of King Solomon, was a man of humble origins. . M was born in 1837 in Stetton, a small town in Germany, his father was a carpenter and then he went to the army and M had three brothers so the family was not very rich and perhaps you could even say that they were poor but when he was a child he received a gift who changed his life forever for his 10th birthday gift he received an ancient Atlas that showed Africa almost blank on the map and this really inspired Mal to become an explorer to fill in the gaps on the map of Africa.

At first, Mar's interest had nothing to do with King Solomon; He was attracted to the mystery of Africa and the opportunity it presented for an ambitious young man. Africa was a good destination for explorers because, because the interior of Africa was still unknown to Europeans, there were still opportunities for heroism and adventure as As the Mount grew, his obsession with Africa continued during this During that time he avidly consumed virtually every book on the geography of Africa from the 16th century onwards, including accounts, in particular, of the early Portuguese explorers, and one story jumped out. of the page to attract the attention of Mal in 1531.

Vincente paid a captain of a Portuguese garrison on the southern coast of Africa wrote among the gold mines of the inland plains between the Limpopo River and Zambesi there is a fortress built of stones of wonderful size and there seems to be no mortar that joined them together. Pegado and the Portuguese explorers were convinced that this fortress was the palace of the Queen of Sheba and the gold mines were the source of King Solomon's wealth. The Bible tells us that King Solomon was the son of the great King David, who killed the giant Philistine warrior Goliath.

How Solomon became famous for his wisdom, his women, and his fabulous wealth, but the Bible also describes Solomon's great encounter with the Queen of Sheba, who brought him tons of gold and spices from her land. He arrived in Jerusalem with a retinue of camels loaded with spices and other precious objects intended as gifts for Solomon and the king gave him 120 talents of gold and a large store of spices and precious stones that no longer amounted to such an abundance of spices as these that the

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ever existed or that any of this story was actually true as far as we can uh Trace our sources Bible readers have been fascinated by the question of where exactly Solomon's wealth came from in the first century for For example, the Jewish historian Josephus speculated that his wealth came from India and since then interpreters have been struggling to piece together clues from the Bible to discover its exact location.

The Bible offers some intriguing clues about the source of Solomon's wealth that he tells us. example that Solomon had to send ships to recover this wealth Solomon's ships traveled to a place called ophir and he also mentions a place called tarish because the king had the navy of tarish with the navy of ham at sea once in 3 years the tarish navy brings gold and silver ivory and apes and peacocks no one knows the exact meaning of the words ofir and tarish ofir is often associated with gold kashish, some scholars believe that it actually refers to a type of ship intended for traveling long distances the location of these places is unknown, but M had discovered an important clue.

Vente paid the Portuguese captain who described her. The wonderfully sized fortress was based at Sopa, on the southern coast of Africa. The Europeans who sought Solomon's riches didn't usually read the Hebrew Bible, they usually read. in the Greek or Latin translation of the Bible and in the Greek translation of the Bible the word ophir actually has an S that appears at the beginning of the words that spell Sophia, so when the Portuguese arrived on the coast of Africa to a city port city called sofa they made a linguistic connection between the name of that port city and the biblical Greek word for ophia or Sophia, believing that this was evidence that they had also found the fountain of Solomon, so soup could be cause for fear.

M began digging for more evidence and again it was The Portuguese Accounts that provided more clues. A Portuguese sailor named Tomás López arrived in the port city of Sofa in southern Africa in 1502 and there he was received by Muslims who told him that native sources described something very curious: they described how the ships belonged. They came to Solomon once every 3 years and took a tremendous amount of gold from a nearby town and they went with the Servants of Solomon to AIA and then took 450 talant of gold which they gave to King Solomon. They had the correct name soup era ofia and They seemed to have found gold, so if the Portuguese were right, they may have stumbled upon one of the most amazing finds ever.

Mal was sure he had it figured out. King Solomon's wealth was in southern Africa and he was determined to find it, but he realized it. He was woefully underqualified, so for the next 11 years he dedicated his entire life to preparing for his expedition to Africa, every day he prepared he prepared both mentally and physically for the day he would realize his dream. . M was always good at school and was interested in Natural Sciences and would have liked to go to university, but his parents did not have the financial means to pay for his expedition. He trained as a teacher and became a private tutor in Austria.

M must have been really determined to go to Africa in all these years he had no support he had no money but he still continued with his plans he taught himself English French and Arabic he tried to acquire specialized knowledge by reading specialized books and magazines such as pitman's Geographic News in his free time he studied Latin medicine and astronomy visited the botanical garden and the Natural History Museum of Gas where he worked at that time as a teacher there he acquired some knowledge of botany, geology and natural history he built his own collections of minerals and insects in 1863 Mal was convinced he was ready, so he wrote to August Peterman, the editor of Germany's highly respected geographical magazine, his goal was to sell himself as an explorer worth investing in.

I think that intellectually and considering my modest means I have done everything that could be done, except the body as well. It requires preparation for such undertakings by walking 6 miles or more each day at every station over any terrain, often without food or drink until my return to the starting point and always wearing the same warm clothing that I have tried to rob my body of. this I have not neglected gymnastics and the musket in height I am tall and corpulent and I enjoy excellent health considering these facts I believe that I am capable of participating in an expedition of this type discover the past with exclusive documentaries on ancient history and adree podcasts presented by historians world-renowned history Watch on your smart TV or on the go with your mobile device Download the app now to explore everything from the wonders of Pompeii to the Buddika Rebellion and the mysteries of prehistoric Scotland in immersion Immerse yourself in the captivating stories of this extraordinary time by registering through the link in the description.

M's letter received an immediate response from the magazine's editor. Peter Man's response was negative and quite discouraging. He explained to Ma how difficult and str such an exploration would be. but he proposed that if Mom managed to reach Africa, he would consider publishing letters or reports despite Peterman's rejection at the age of 26 after 11 years of preparation. Mal was ready to go, but Mal decided to spend a few months researching. he in London before going to South Africa and, at the end of that time, he had run out of money. Mal worked as a deckhand on a steamship to finance himself before arriving in Durban, South Africa, in January 1865.

His search could Now begin with only the best of necessities: a small pocket compass, a

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ing knife, a blanket, a painting kit and a gun. I set out to explore southern Africa in search of the land of June 1865. I have tried to acclimatize myself by walking diligently through the country without worrying if I wander through unknown fields for 2 or 3 days without food or even if I have an unpleasant encounter with the larger carnivores, but Mal soon ran into trouble. Mal's journeys were not easy at all, he went through a lot of suffering almost to the point. of hunger, this was the fifth day of hunger for me and it can be understood that I contemplated the future with a Jaist look, even the little birds seemed to fly away from me while I am still miles away from them, neither pheasant nor partridge could be seen and an effort of one time to try fishing he also failed hungry, thirsty, tired and with almost unbearable pain in his knee.

I still had 25 miles to go and as bad luck would have it I didn't get a chance to take one last shot and so I didn't. get something to eat in his desperation M sent a messenger with a letter to August Peterman, the editor of Germany's geographical magazine, to support his African expedition this time his luck was in Peterman appealed to his readers to support Mal, we believed that he had to be helped, he is the only explorer in all of South Africa at the moment, it would seem a patriotic and scientific duty to support Herou and not leave him defenseless in the distant interior.

The mascot man's appeal to support Ma and his magazine was a success. Several of his readers donated small sums since M had no money, it was a great help to him, but compared to other explorers it was still a very small amount. However, these donations helped Mal continue his exploration of southern Africa for a long time. The next 8 years, two years after his journey, Mal entered the Tarti region, an area located on the borders of Botswana and Zimbabwe and, with the help of the famous British

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er Henry Hartley, Mal made his first significant discovery on the 27th.

July 1867. Heartley brought me the news that in following a wounded elephant he passed several wells submerged in quartz I arrived at a site that I recognized as a smelting place. When I examined some fresh stones I found gold, very happy I ran back to camp to impart the good news when M discovered In the first gold field, he was really delighted to have made such a great and great discovery the next day. M discovered another field of gold. Could these be the minds of King Solomon? News of the gold mine spread like wildfire across the plains of southern Africa, sparking one of its first gold rushes when newspapers headlined its great discovery.

Germany's geographical magazine believed Mal was onto something much more. large in relation to the gold fields discovered by Ma. It is not improbable that they are identical with the oia of the Bible and the places from which Solomon obtained them. his wealth in gold but if finding gold mines was encouraging for M to be really sure that he was in the land of Ophir he had to find the city worthy of the great Queen of Sheba in the same year that M discovered the gold deposits de tarti began To hear rumors of an abandoned city with huge stone walls described by locals as fabulous buildings, Mal was told that the city lay in a mountainous region between the two largest rivers in southern Africa, the Zambesi and the Limpopo, in May 1871.

Mal wrote with confidence to the representatives of his country. geographical magazine to tell them that he wanted to dedicate his next expedition to the newly united German people. I will make it the highest duty of my profession to add honor to the name of the German nation. I hope that my next trip offers the opportunity to discover the ruins of Ophia would be a point that would be envied by other nations for the next 3 years. M searched the ruins, shot elephants and rabbits for food, and suffered great hunger and exhaustion. He tried to reach the ruins for a long period. and he often failed and he had to return to the European settlements.

Mal survived the robberies and attempted to gain the trust of local tribes throughout his travels. He had to form alliances withtribal rulers. He feared the natives around him. He thought that might even kill him and at one point he was held prisoner in Matab land until a deal was made for his release, but eventually a member of the local Kuranga tribe brought him face to face with the magnificent city of Wal, finally the September 5, 1871. I was fortunate to be the The first white man to see them, the ruins represent a powerful fortress consisting of two parts, of which one on a mountain of about 400 feet with very large rocks is separated by a small narrow valley of the second, which is located on a slight elevation, Mal just.

He couldn't believe what they saw. Nothing like it had been seen south of the equator and it simply should not have been there. Mal was convinced that he had finally found the ruins of the Queen of Sheba's palace, but how could he be sure that Mar set to work? He examined the structure of the ruins and discovered that the walls were built of stone without mortar, this exactly matched Vincente's 16th century description of the ruins that he had read as a teenager among the gold mines of the inland plains. between the Limpopo River and the Zambesi there is a fortress built of stones of wonderful size, and there does not seem to be any mortar joining them together.

The mountain's next step was to find out who had created it, he could not believe that such a structure could have been built by native Africans. Mal's opinion was supported by the local tribesman. I have learned from the local inhabitants that they themselves have lived here for only 40 years and that the region was quite uninhabited before that time, they are all absolutely convinced that white people once inhabited the region, because even now there are signs of housing and iron tools that could not have been produced by blacks, so if the palace was built by white people, where did they do it?

They come from the mountain they turned to the Bible for clues, there is no description of ophia in the Bible, but there is a description of the construction of the

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temple of King Solomon and the king ordered and they brought large stones, expensive stones and huge stones to set the foundations of Looking at the house, as he observed the structures that make up the Great Báb, he noticed a resemblance to Solomon's Temple as described in the Bible and to other structures that archaeologists were only then beginning to learn about. Mount considered it likely that the palace would be built. by an ancient people called the Phoenicians in the 1850s and 1860s, archaeologists began excavating colonies that the Phoenicians had established throughout the Mediterranean and also sites in their homeland of Phoenicia in what is now Lebanon, and this revealed to Europeans this powerful complex. civilization before the Greeks and Romans that spread throughout the Mediterranean and had an impact on culture that spread from the Middle East to North Africa, this really inspired the imagination of many Europeans who began to believe that the Phoenicians were capable of traveling great distances.

The Phoenicians built their structures without mortar and there was no mortar at this site, but this in itself was not evidence of what else there might be to link it to the Phoenicians. Again, the Bible offered a clue and made clear that cedar wood was a critical ingredient in At that time and it was covered with cedar over a pond, the rafters. Cedar was a famous wood found in modern-day Lebanon. The obvious place to look for the wood was where it supported the stone structure. Now I really didn't have the necessary materials or labor. for a major exploration of the site, but took some samples of the wood.

I cut some splinters from the cross beam at the north entrance. The wood is still quite healthy and has a reddish color. A comparison with the wood of my pencil shows very well. similarity and therefore I suppose it is strengthened by the further hypothesis that it must be Cedarwood that is convinced that Ceda trees did not exist in the lower Zambesi. Mal was sure that they must have been brought there by Solomon's Phoenician builders from Lebanon, as the Bible now says, so he ordered. you who moistened cedars of Lebanon suddenly everything came together for M here was a city that no African could have built it was built by the Phoenicians in the same style as King Solomon's temple in Jerusalem the Phoenicians used stone without mortar and brought wood from cedar from Lebanon to make the support beams and the local name for sop is sopia like ofhia in the Bible and to top it all off, Mal had also discovered the two gold mines, the source of Solomon's wealth, so surely this was it .

I don't think I hear it. when I suppose that the ruins on the mountain are an imitation of the Solomonic temple on Mount Mariah, the ruins on the plan a copy of that Palace in which the Queen of Sheba lived during her visit to Solomon also fit better with the known buildings. Phoenicians, the natives and the Arabs would have built differently, even the fact that I could not find traces of inscriptions anywhere seems to me to confirm the justification of my opinion, since nowhere do we read that Solomon had an inscription of any kind fixed in his temple.

I think that feia is the current sofla or sofara, the name by which it is known and pronounced inside. To Mal, there was no doubt that AIA was not in the Middle East, but was here in southern Africa all along. August Peterman, a long-time supporter of Ma, still awaiting more details from M, quickly published a brief report on his great discovery. It is already known from newspaper reports that on September 5, 1871, K ma discovered the magnificent ruins in the mountainous region between Limpopo and Zambia, about 40 miles inland from soup that ancient Portuguese reports speak of and that were related to King Solomon's official expeditions in early times.

The great discovery of M had a great impact throughout the world and in particular inspired the great British novelist H Ryder Hagard to write his famous book King Solomon's Minds H. The mind of King Solomon, by the writer Haggard, was the most famous adventure novel. successful 19th century. Haard tells the story of one man's search in the heart of Africa to discover the minds of the

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King Solomon and then told me how he had found them in the far interior. a ruined city that he believed to be the hear of the Bible when he suddenly said to me boy, have you ever heard of the Sullon Mountains in the northwest of the country of Mush Kumi?

I told him I had never heard of the Sullon Mountains in the northwest of the Kumi country. I told him I had never heard of it. Well, he said that's where. Solomon really had the Minds of him overnight. The title of the book The Minds of King Solomon, a phrase no one had used before, entered popular legend and that novel was widely read by people in Europe and sparked their curiosity and motivated other aspiring explorers to travel to Africa in search of . of the gold and wealth they believed they could find in Ryder Hagard became one of the richest and most successful novelists of all time thanks to the discovery of M.

However, the only person who got very little of it was himself when M returned to Germany, I hoped. that he would be rewarded with a position in a natural history museum, but I think that the degree from Laing University, and perhaps even his personality, were aspects that made things difficult for him. Bad, impoverished and sick, he was forced to work in a cement factory which he suffered. terribly due to depression, he had liver disease as a result of his African travels, his body was tormented by pain continually and, as his neighbor said, he was often drunk because his medicine was no longer working, so he drank alcohol instead. to spend his last day. days in a hotel above a train station near Stuttgart sleeping on the third floor.

He was sleeping in an armchair next to an open window and one night he fell out of the window. His neighbor found him early in the morning and took him to the hospital. Stuttgart broke his spine and both legs were paralyzed. Carl Ma, 37, died in the hospital a few days later, on April 4, 1875. It is not known whether his death was accidental or self-inflicted, so his reputation died. His writings were largely ignored by academia. M's discoveries were virtually unrecognized at the time when they were published in just 52 pages in Alos Peterman's journals and if you didn't know how to read German you would never have noticed them and it wasn't until 1960 that his diaries were published in their entirety, but At least thanks to Mal the Minds of King Solomon seemed to have been discovered and for many years people believed that the ruins in southern Africa were the place, but in the early 20th century even this legacy was challenged now a new generation of explorers and they were very different.

Gone are the days of Rance and biblical literalism. This was a moment for archeology and science. Archeology really started in the mid 19th century when we had mostly theologians, religious figures coming out and trying to confirm people, places and events in the Bible as time went on, these early geographers and theologians are replaced by professional archaeologists. One of these new professionals was the British David Randall, most famous for his scientific approach to archeology in 1905, 3,000 years after the arrival of King Solomon. Reign Randall Mver did seven carefully detailed examinations of Carl Ma of Fear. The first thing he did was date the buildings by examining the pottery unearthed in the excavation.

He was able to tell when they were made and Randall Maiva quickly learned something that reveals they are unquestionable. African in every detail and belong to a period determined by foreign imports as, in general, medieval; In other words, one of the key foundations of fear theory was wrong. David Anam mver was the first person to identify a medieval date and the dating was really important because all the Foreign Origins theses go back to KL Mar and his type of biblical interpretation depended on Great Zimbabwe being much older than what was believed. It was thousands of years older.

The ruins of Great Zimbabwe were not built by an ancient and vanished white man. civilization as currently believed, but they were of purely African origin and dated from approximately the 14th century. A second of his key findings would also be questioned. Mal was convinced that the structures had been built by Phoenicians with wood and stone brought from Lebanon. Randall MAA evaluated and dismissed his interpretations as incredulous and found no such evidence at all. David Gran and MCA said look, everything I found here is identical to the remains of local African materials, etc., and he just said, well, that clearly means it must be African, there is no type.

It cannot be proven that the layer beneath the style of the buildings owes anything to foreign influences. All features of Eastern and European architecture are completely absent. Following in Randall's footsteps, the formidable British archaeologist Gertrude Kon Thompson led the first all-female excavation of the ruins in 1929. and made the next assault on M's theory on AIA g k Thompson was sent by the British Association to provide an answer Kon Thompson dug deeper than anyone before her, sinking six trenches into the ground around the main buildings and excavating in areas undisturbed by previous visitors. When she finished dating the site, she stated that examination of all existing evidence gathered at each neighborhood still cannot produce a single element that does not agree with the claim of a medieval date if by the indigenous means An origin born from the country in which they are located, then, in my opinion, the ruins are indigenous in the full sense of the term in the early days of archaeology, the claims of amateurs and explorers could stand for decades before someone actually came in and tested what they had said and either proved it or disproved it, so it was a matter of 30 or 40 years before the archaeologist came in and actually started digging and said yes, this is connected to the minds of King Solomon or not, it's not and in the case of that City, the answer was no, it's not your claim. , is incorrect, so everything Mal had said about the ruins was wrong, even down to the piece of wood he had taken from one of the support beams, it did not come from the cedars of Lebanon, but was in fact, the The scientific techniques of a local African sandalwood Mal were much more primitive than those used today, so, for example, to identify the wood that was used in the structures he found in Great Zimbabwe, he did not rely on no elaborate chemical analysis, but simply looked.

He looked at the wood and compared it to the wood he was using in his own pencil and of course there was another factor. Mal was a product of the Victorian era who had very different views on black Africa. M was convinced that Great Zimbabwe must have been built by white builders and the idea that it could have been builtfor an African people did not come to mind, which goes hand in hand with European thinking at the time that the indigenous African population was an uncivilized naturalistic people with no history and no civilized society. culture, so believing that Great Zimbabwe could have been built by an African people would have been a contradiction to this firmly established vision.

Does all this mean that Carl Ma's Quest turned out to be useless in a strange way, no, because while Mou's conclusions were ridiculed his discovery of the ancient city in 1871 has turned out to be one of the most important archaeological finds in all of Africa known today. As Great Zimbabwe or Great House of Stones these ancient ruins have become one of Africa's most

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d national monuments and a UNESCO World Heritage Site Great Zimbabwe is representative of African achievements A brilliant African achievement in the medieval period Archaeological evidence suggests that Great Zimbabwe was built between the 12th and 15th centuries by the ancestors of the Shona people who had settled in the region almost a thousand years earlier and that we still inhabit Zimbabwe today from a village peasant, it grew into a very prosperous political and commercial kingdom from 1150 to 1450 with a population of more than 10,000 inhabitants.

Its development and growth was focused on agriculture, mainly livestock, and its massive trade in gold and ivory reached Arabia and China, they found Ming pottery there, they found Arabic pottery there, Indian beads, etc., it was clearly part of a trading system. much larger and evoke that kind of commercial position and to be able to build such a large site and therefore such a sophisticated site must have been controlling all kinds of agricultural resources. No one is sure why Great Zimbabwe fell into decline and was abandoned in the 15th century, but many suspect it was due to the collapse of trade, political instability and current famine.

The whole world can recognize that Great Zimbabwe is a fantastic place, an incredible achievement. You know, structurally, it's an incredibly beautiful place, beautifully built, etc., but it's also representative of a very sophisticated African culture. You probably know its meaning in its briefest summary. This is because the country's name derives from it, there are not many countries that derive their name from an archaeological site and it is well deserved. If Carl Mal had realized this at the time of his discovery in 1871, he really could have changed the way the world viewed African civilizations, but of course there is another question: does all this mean that the story of the Minds of King Solomon is simply a legend with no real basis in history.

The Bible doesn't actually mention the Minds of King Solomon, it mentions Solomon's wealth along with wisdom and women, the three W's, but it doesn't say where he is. wealth actually came, so it's all invented by the writer Haggard in his novel Ginging The Mind of Solomon and as archaeologists we can't get carried away by a novel written in the last 100 years to dictate what we are looking for in the Hundred Years Later After M's death, nothing was found to substantiate the belief that King Solomon or his great wealth ever existed, but recently, little by little, modern scientific archaeologists are finding some evidence and one of the most exciting discoveries of The last times was the evidence of the existence of Solomon's father.

King David in the early 1990s 9394 inscription was found at a site in northern Israel as far as Don. It was from an ancient inscription dating to approximately the mid-9th century BC. C. the inscribed stone contained the letters bit David and are identical to the early Hebrew and Aramaic words for House of David and many archaeologists believe that these words are an authentic reference to the Bible, it said that a king of the House of David had made such and such b David, the House of David, that is the first any mention of David or the House of David that has ever been found, if we were talking, let's say, even in the late 1980s, I would have said that There is no evidence of David and Solomon outside of the Bible when the inscription was found in To put an end to the debate, it was clear that David did exist and I really believe that it is only a matter of time before there is something to prove the Solomon's reign and that time may not be far away in an arid region in modern-day Jordan.

South of the Dead Sea, archaeologists believe they may have found mines created around the time of King Solomon in 1000 BC. C., we found hundreds of ancient mines, we found metal production sites and we decided, based solely on the surface remains, that we would begin to do an intensive excavation at one of these Nas sites, which in Arabic means copper ruins, assuming that King Solomon had mines, one of the things we have to ask is what type of mines are they, are they gold mines, are they copper mines. Actually, I'd say it's more likely copper mines. He makes money by buying and selling copper.

Copper may not be gold, but during the Bronze Age it was an essential element in the making of tools and weapons, making it incredibly valuable. What was discovered was that ATB was because there were two important centuries of copper production on an industrial scale and that was in the 10th century BC. C. and in the 9th century BC. C., which is the time of Solomon, so some have been wondering if we have the minds of King Solomon here. We have not found the minds of Solomon, but I think our results bring to the table the issue of the minds of Solomon or, say, the Solomonic king om and its scope, until now ancient Greek adventurers of the Renaissance and Victorian explorers have tried without success finding the King.

The minds of Solomon now continue the search into the 21st century and perhaps archaeologists in Jordan will discover the source of Solomon's great wealth, only time will tell but of course even if they do so far there is nothing that suggest that your wealth has something to do with someone. called the Queen of Sheba, evidence of her remains completely elusive.