Queen of Sheba

Published March 31, 2023

The Queen of Sheba is one of the few ancient historical figures that has not been linked with Atlantis. Wikipedia refers to her as “a figure first mentioned in the Hebrew Bible. In the original story, she brings a caravan of valuable gifts for the Israelite King Solomon………..modern historians identify Sheba with the South Arabian kingdom of Saba in present-day Yemen and Ethiopia. The queen’s existence is disputed among historians.”^(a)

>In Arabia she was known as Bilqis, to the Christians of Ethiopia she was Makeda, while Josephus referred to her as Nicaule.<

Nevertheless, she is mentioned from time to time on these pages, particularly regarding her identity> and the time of her reign. In the 1950s Immanuel Velikovsky, proposed, in Ages in Chaos ^[039] that either six centuries were missing from Israel’s history or had six hundred ghost years crept into Egyptian history. One of the keys to his revised chronology was the identification of the Queen of Sheba as the Egyptian queen Hatshepsut.

This caused quite a stir at the time and generated a degree of support for Velikovsky. However, in 1986 John Bimson published a paper, ‘Hatshepsut and the Queen of Sheba’, debunking Velikovsky’s contention, which had the effect of eroding that support. Then in 1997, Damien Mackey re-ignited the controversy with a paper challenging Bimson’s conclusion^(f) and so the debate continues^(h).<

>There are a number of 21st-century commentators who still accept Velikovsky’s identification of Hatshepsut as the Queen of Sheba including Emmet Sweeney ^[1867.25] and Emmet Scott^(d), Damien Mackey^(f),as well as Ken Griffith & Darrell K. White^(e) and, I might add, no lack of opponents either.<

Eulalio Eguia offered a different Egyptian identification suggesting Nefertiti instead of Hatshepsut^(b). Riaan Booysen went further, not only agreeing with Eguia but proposing that Nefertiti was also Helen of Troy^(c)!

>Among the Ethiopians, there is a tradition that the Queen of Sheba and Solomon had a child, Menelik, who visited Jerusalem and returned to Ethiopia with the Ark of the Covenant. There is no evidence to support this tale which is thought to have been “originally created to legitimize Yukuno Amlak’s rule of the late 13th century AD who had killed the Zagwa king to obtain power.”<

^(a) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Queen_of_Sheba

^(b) Calaméo – Nefertiti – The Queen of Sheba ` (calameo.com)

^(c) Thera and the Exodus – Graham Hancock Official Website

^(d) Hatshepsut: Queen of Sheba: Scott, Emmet: 9780875869452: Amazon.com: Books (I suspect that Emmet Sweeney, a Scot, and Emmet Scott are the same person and share the same publisher)

^(e) (99+) (PDF) Hatshepsut and the Queen of Sheba A Chronological Proof | Kenneth Griffith and Darrell K White – Academia.edu

^(f)(83) Solomon and Sheba | Damien Mackey – Academia.edu

Tagged Ages in Chaos, Ark of the Covenant, Bilqis, Damien Mackey, Darrell K. White, Emmet Sweeney, Ethiopia, Eulalio Eguia, Hatshepsut, Helen of Troy, Immanuel Velikovsky, John Bimson, Josephus, Ken Griffith, Makeda, Memelik, Nefertiti, Nicaule, Riaan Booysen, Saba, Sheba, Solomon, Yemen

Punt

Published November 18, 2015

Punt is the name given to a land with which the ancient Egyptians traded. The leading theory is that it was located to the southeast of Egypt, roughly occupying what is now called ‘the Horn of Africa, although there is also a popular view that it was situated on the Arabian Peninsula. Others suggest that a combination of parts of both regions might be nearer the truth. An article of November 2016 elaborates on the claim for this identification^(e).

Along with the many luxury goods that Punt supplied to Egypt were baboons, so it was interesting to read in 2020 that “a new study tracing the geographic origins of Egyptian mummified baboons finds that they were sourced from an area that includes the modern-day countries of Ethiopia, Eritrea, Djibouti, Somalia, and Yemen, providing new insight into Punt’s location.”⁽ⁱ⁾. The investigation centred on the strontium levels found in the ancient remains.

Thor Heyerdahl in The Tigris Expedition ^[1921] also identified the region around Djibouti as the land of Punt.

In 2013, a short book ^[¹⁵⁶⁷^] by Ahmed Ibrahim Awale, placed Punt in the same region, namely, in Hargeisa, the capital of Somaliland. A favourable and well-illustrated review^(f) of Awale’s book is worth a read. The worldhistory.org website has pointed out that the name of the Puntland State of Somalia may preserve a memory of the original mythical Punt^(h).

>However, Immanuel Velikovsky wrote at length about Punt and its location in Palestine in Ages in Chaos ^[0039]. He maintains that Punt is consistently described as being to the east of Egypt, which would rule out Somalia. Added to this, he claimed that the Queen of Sheba and Queen Hatshepsut were one and the same person. Others, such as Eulalio Eguia, identify the Queen of Sheba with Nefertiti^(l). Velikovsky’s comments are certainly worth a read. Emmet Sweeney has adopted both Velikovsky’s location for Punt and his identification of the Queen of Sheba^(j). Damien Mackey offers new evidence to support Velikovsky’s claims^(m).

By way of contrast, David Lorton has offered a series of criticisms of Velikovsky’s Punt/Sheba ideas^(k).<

Frank Joseph in his Atlantis Encyclopedia^[⁰¹⁰⁴^.37] claims that “the Lands of Punt (are) often associated with the islands of Atlantis.” Joseph expands on this in an Atlantis Rising article^(a) where he refers to an ancient Egyptian story of “The Shipwrecked Sailor” in which the ‘Serpent King’ is identified as master of the island of Punt, which again Joseph claims to be Atlantis.

More recently, a small number of commentators have identified Punt/Atlantis with Indonesia^(b)(c). Dhani Irwanto, who is a leading advocate of an Indonesian Atlantis^[¹⁰⁹³^] published in November 2015 an extensive article online^(d) in which he specifically names the Indonesian island of Sumatera (Sumatra) as the land of Punt. He has now expanded this into a book, Land of Punt: In Search of the Divine Land of the Egyptians ^[^1628]. Irwanto goes further and also identifies the mysterious land of Ophir in the Bible as Punt.

Xavier Séguin proposed that Punt along with Atlantis, Mu and Hyperborea were in fact satellites^(g)!!!

^(a) See: Archive 2790

^(b) https://www.bibliotecapleyades.net/atlantida_mu/esp_atlantida_3a.htm

^(c)http://www.lost-civilizations.net/true-history-atlantis-2.html

^(d) https://atlantisjavasea.com/2015/11/14/land-of-punt-is-sumatera/

^(e) https://www.ancient-origins.net/ancient-places-africa/somalia-ancient-lost-kingdom-punt-finally-found-006893?nopaging=1

^(f) The Mystery of the Land of Punt Unravelled – book review | Land of Punt (archive.org) *

^(g) https://eden-saga.com/en/mythology-deluge-cataclysm-plato-flood-atlantis-location-piri-reis-last-days-in-atlantis.html

^(h) https://www.worldhistory.org/punt/?visitCount=48&lastVisitDate=2021-4-9&pageViewCount=64

⁽ⁱ⁾ https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2020/12/201215082048.htm

^(j) https://www.hope-of-israel.org/expeditionpunt.html

^(k) http://www.oocities.org/athens/academy/1326/hatshepsut.html