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Over the centuries the figure of the Queen of Sheba has loomed large in poetry and romance. The mysterious Queen, who is said to have visited Solomon in Jerusalem, has cast her spell over poets, painters and storytellers of many lands. The people of Ethiopia have always claimed her as her own, and to this day boast that her son Menelik ? fruit of the union between the Queen and Solomon ? stole the Ark of the Covenant from the Temple in Jerusalem after Solomon?s death. For all that, historians have been more sanguine, and increasingly over the past century the academic community has veered towa