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The Queen of Sheba’s gold

Documented folklore from the Club 49 map, told straight and sourced.

The story

The Bible and the Quran both tell of the Queen of Sheba arriving before Solomon with camels loaded with gold, spices and gems. Archaeology has found the real civilization behind the legend: the Sabaean kingdom of southern Arabia and its trading cousins at Aksum in Ethiopia, with monumental temples, the great Marib dam, and control of the incense roads that made it fabulously rich. Excavations near Aksum have turned up gold-working and a site claimed as her palace. The queen may be legend; the wealth was real.

The ground it haunts

Aksum (Ethiopia) & the Sabaean lands. Source: A legendary queen over a real, fabulously rich trading kingdom. The Club 49 map pins this legend at its documented country, beside the real mines, active claims, land status and modeled honey holes of the same ground. Open the free map and go stand in the story.

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