The Arabian Spice Trade

Solomon & Sheba Files

a lecture by Alexandra Porter, Institute of Archaeology, University College London.

The Biblical story of the Queen of Sheba and King Solomon, provides a very good framework with which to examine the beginnings of the Arabian spice trade because it is often understood to be the earliest reference to the South Arabian incense trade with the Near East. 1 Kings 10 says that the Queen of Sheba travelled to Jerusalem to visit King Solomon with a great camel caravan laden with gold, spices and precious stones. As her name indicates, the Queen probably came from Sheba, the anglicised word for ‘Saba’, a powerful incense-trading kingdom that existed in Southern Arabia. The term ‘spices’ includes frankincense and myrrh, the main export of Ancient South Arabia.

biblio :

Biography - Solomon & Sheba: An Epic Love Story (2005)
Biography (documentary) see amazon!

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