King Solomon Receiving the Queen of Sheba  1629

The queen of Sheba is reported in the Book of Kings to have journeyed to Jerusalem to test King Solomon’s wisdom and see the splendor of his court. She was thought by some 17th-century European scholars to have come from Ethiopia and by others, from Arabia. Since the ancient kingdom of Sheba (Saba) on the Arabian Peninsula reestablished itself in what is now Ethiopia at le...