QUEEN OF SHEBA’S MINES.

Rangitikei Advocate and Manawatu Argus, Volume XXXIII, Issue 9072, 12 February 1908, Page 3

QUEEN OF SHEBA’S MINES.

GERMAN CONTROVERSY ON THE BIBLE’S GOLDEN SECRET,

A titter archaeological controversy is raging in Germany over the exact location of the famous gold mines of •the Queen of Sheba. Dr. Carl Peters, the -well-known explorer and former Governor of German East Africa, has been lecturing throughout Germany to the effect that the Biblical Ophir gold region in Africa, according to his discoveries lies on the Zambesi river, Baron von| FalJrenegg, also an explorer of note, isays that the theory of Dr, Peters has been set up •‘ in -the interests of England. ” Baron Falkenegg writes : —‘•‘From the Bible it is ineoutrovertibly clear that the Queen of Sheba, i.e., Habesch, took the land route over Arabia. From the Harxar region in the neighbourhood of Bjibuti she sailed to Yemen to ■some Southern Arabian point, and - 4 there organised the great caravan. > In all probability, as ruler of Habssoh, she was also ruler of Soutnern Arabia.” Baron Falkenegg then •discusses rthe '“colonial policy which King Solomon, in common with King Hiram, of Phcenica,“carried out. With his ffdand Hiram, the Phoenician sea-king, King Solomon established colonies in Afica. The -Phoenicians furnished the ships and sailors, and the Jewish King supplied the money and the soldiers, irom , what is to-day Tripoli, along the coasts of Africa, the Phoenicians had their colonies, in North-West and .South-East Africa, all the way to Habesch. The .-remains of Phoenician structures of.all sorts abound throughout Africa. “On that basis Dr. Peters rests his; arguments that the of the; “Simbabje’ is tne <oki legendary •Ophir. The gold ships came from the land ‘Offi’—that is, ‘Africa.’ The richest deposits, however, were xevealed fin the Habesch district, or what is to-day Abyssinia.” -One result of the campaign.wiil he •certain benefit to the Soudan, where it is well inowh there -exist great mineral wealth and untold agricultural possibilities, the pioneer in exploring which was probably the Austrian Joseph Rnssegger,. who, <0 years ago, compiled and ilkutsratecl 15 gigantic volumes on the-subject Even now German capitalists and •colonisers are turning their attention in that directions it was a German citizen long resident in Loudon,. Mr Charles Tuchmana, who built the hotel at Khartoum and commenced to interest British investors. The efforts of the Haenburg-Amencan Company in Nile navigation are a§so appealing to German pride ; and is known the prospector and th© land developer are beginning, on behalf of German interests, to appear in increasing numbers Is. the Sondan:;;