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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;John Anthony, post: 2034759, member: 42773&quot;]The Kingdom of Sheba is shrouded in mystery, as different ancient sources give different accounts. There is the famous account in the Hebrew Bible of the Queen of Sheba visiting King Solomon, but the same source describes two different kingdoms, Sheba and Seba, deriving from entirely different genealogies. Josephus writes about a kingdom of Saba in Ethiopia, the Koran also describes the Queen of Sheba&#039;s visit to Solomon, and ancient Ethiopian traditions also describe a Sheba - in Ethiopia.</p><p><br /></p><p>It seems confusing, and the matter is muddled even further by the fact that there was a considerable amount of cultural overlap among the Southern Arabians. For instance, scholars can&#039;t decide whether the various civilizations on the above-posted map spoke different languages, or dialects of the same.</p><p><br /></p><p>But archeologists generally agree that Sheba was located in Southern Arabia. The different ancient traditions may not be in conflict at all - they may simply be describing different cultures at different times with similar names.</p><p><br /></p><p>A Sabaean stele of a priestess...</p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]370700[/ATTACH] </p><p><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sheba" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sheba" rel="nofollow">Source</a>[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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