Exhibit Watch: Arabian Sights

We may never know if the Bible’s accounts of King Solomon’s liaison with the Queen of Sheba are historically accurate (1 Kings 10; 2 Chronicles 9). However, the Biblical references to merchants of Sheba and the bustling trade between this South Arabian city and the southern Levant are on a much stronger archaeological footing.a As early as 1200 B.C.E., camel caravans were crisscrossing the Arabian peninsula to transport valuable incense and other goods to and from far-flung markets in the Horn of Africa, the Mediterranean world and the Near East. The North American premiere of the exhibit Roads of […]