Egypt

Many believe that it was Yemen. There was an ancient pre-islamic Arab Civilisation there 3000 years ago.

First of all we must correct the English translation of the Hebrew text in the Bible which refers to Queen Sheba. She was not Queen of Sheba but Queen Sheba of Ophir. We now know that Ophir (or Auphirah, Afriha = Africa) was the Biblical word for Africa. In King Solomon's time, most Africans lived along the River Nile. Today, the countries of the Nile are Ethiopia, The Sudan and Egypt. So Sheba was Queen of these countries. When Sheba visited Solomon in circa 950 BC, Only The Sudan and Egypt were well populated. Modern Ethiopia was sparsely populated but the descendants of Queen Sheba's people now populate Ethiopia and the rest of the African continent as well. "The Sudan" is derived from an old Egyptian term for the South and North or "sut-en-bat". Sheba was Queen of the Sut or South. That's why Jesus is quoted as naming her "Queen of the South" in the Gospels of the Bible. A contemporary of the apostle Paul was a former Jewish leader named Josephus Flavius. He named this queen the "Queen of Egypt and Ethiopia". Thus "The South" or "Suten", Ophir and "Egypt-Ethiopia" are the same place although modern boundaries are not quite the same. That's where all the confusion comes from. The old name for Ethiopia is Abyssinia. This can be read as the place (or "inia") of Abyss. What is "Abyss"? We have to read this word from left to right because it was transliterated from Amharic texts formerly written from right to left, rather than translated. Amharic is the ancient and modern language of today's Ethiopia. Adjusting for the 'right-to-left' method of writing to the left-to-right method used in modern English, we read "Abyss" back-to-front or in the reverse and that gives us 'Ssyba'. When we see a double letter like 'ss' or 'pp' we read it as the fricative i.e., 'ss' becomes 'sh' and 'pp' becomes 'f'. Thus 'Abyss' or 'Ssyba' is really Shyba or another variant of Sheba. Rivers in Ethiopia-Abyssinia or 'Sheba-inia' are the source of the Nile. When Sheba lived, she was queen of the Egyptians and Ethiopians. We know her better today as Hat-Sheba-Sut or Hatshepsut. Queen Hatshepsut built a temple in Egypt that is a copy of King Solomon's temple that once stood in Jerusalem. The Temple evokes the words of Solomon in Song of Solomon 2:14, "O my dove, you are in the clefts of the rock in the secret places of the stairs". If you look at Hatshepsut's temple in Deir el-Bahari, southern Egypt near Thebes, and note that it has secret tunnels bored into the cliff, you can see why she built her temple like that. The temple at Deir el-Bahari is "The Sign of the Sheba of the South" and it shows that she must have listened to Solomon when he was composing the Song of Solomon where the woman in the song is a black woman or African. That is what "Hat-Shep-sut" actually means: The Sign (H'at) of the Shepa or Sheba of the Sut (South = Ethiopia and Egypt). The reason for Hatshepsut-Sheba being enigmatic is that the priests of Egypt and the army did not agree with her decision to abandon the worship of Egypt's pagan gods and worship and believe Israel's Jehovah instead. They Hated Israel's God because he destroyed Egypt 500 years before Sheba and Solomon. Jehovah's Son was with God (in the Trinity) when God called Hatshepsut to go to Punt (= Israel and Phoenicia). She wrote about that in her temple. However, they did not allow her to complete the temple's full construction (or she died or abdicated under pressure before its completion). That's why Hatshepsut's temple in Egypt is so strange. It is completely different from any other Egyptian temple. If it was built as her tomb, the body has never been found. So that's another enigma. However, from the Biblical account, carefully written and preserved by dozens of generations of Jewish scribes, depending on the length of a 'generation', the necessary information to explain Hatshepsut is preserved. The other problem is that Egyptologists say Hatshepsut ruled Egypt in 1450 BC not 950 BC. However, we are now proving that all the Egyptologists historical dates are quite wrong. They are wrong by anywhere from 250, 350 or 600-700 years. Many Egyptian dynasties: especially 6 to 10; 13 to 16 and 21-25, are not dynasties at all. The 19th and 26th dynasties are the same except with other names added or Greek names used for people in one and Egyptian names for the same people used in the other. The 19th dynasty's Merneptah Baenre Meriamun Hotephirmaat is the Apries-Hophra of the 26th. Sety in the 19th, or "Sety-Ptah-Maat", is "Psammetich(us)" in the 26th Dynasty. Ramesses The Great of the 19th dynasty is given the Jews' nickname in the 26th i.e., Necho (meaning the brass king or loud-mouth). The Egyptologists have made a mess of the dates in ancient history although a lot of other work such as carefully excavating Hatshepsu't buried temple has been done. But the dates are a terrible mess. That's why the Bibical history which should match Egyptian history does not. The Bible's correct but the dates for Egyptian and other histories are very inaccurate. By resolving these dating problems we are able to explain Who "The Queen of Sheba" really is. You can email me at ttdonaldstewart@hotmail.com" for further information.