Queen Of Sheba Mountain, Khamis Mushayt, Saudi Arabia
Oral tradition in this area of Saudi Arabia (near Khamis Mushayt) report that the Queen of Sheba (now Yemen) traveled past here 3000+ years ago on her way to visit and negotiate and marry King Solomon from the Old Testament. Solomon sent word to her to stop as he was not ready to see her. The Queen is said to have stopped here for two years and waited until Soloman called for her. Two years does not mean what it means in western culture, maybe 5 years or 3 months? All of this is oral tribal history without calendars and watches.
There are artifacts of some type of settlement still present at the base of the ‘hill’ and something on the top, an altar for worshiping? In any case the site is guarded by the antiquities police so no one can look around.
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