Darchaeological excavations have revealed the existence of a gold mine which corroborates the biblical legend of the fabulous treasure of the Queen of Sheba. Indeed, 3000 years ago, this queen reigned over the kingdom of Sheba (now Sheba) which extended over present-day Ethiopia and Yemen, on both sides of the Red Sea. According to the Bible, she had arrived in Jerusalem with vast quantities of gold to offer to King Solomon, the very one who had built the temple in Jerusalem.
An ancient gold mine that has just been unearthed on the site of an ancient temple and battlefield is so huge that it alone could explain the Queen's fabulous wealth.
Louise Schofield, archaeologist and previously curator of the British Museum, leads the excavation site which is on the high plateau of Gheralta in the north of Ethiopia. She says: “One of the things I have always appreciated in archeology is that it can be linked to legends and myths. The fact that we can be in the presence of the mines of the Queen of Sheba is simply extraordinary. ”
According to the Bible, she visited King Solomon to test him with riddles, which she did by asking him several riddles. The legend says that Solomon would have courted her and that the descendants of their son Menelik (which means "the son of the wise") reigned over Abyssinia.
Halissie Selassie I was a descendant of Menelik and also of the tribe of Judah as “Jesus Christ”.