I cannot be imposed upon any more by that picture of the Queen of Sheba visiting Solomon.

He visited Solomon again at Stanford University during the Fall of 1960 and the Spring of 1966.

What I have had long on my mind is visiting Papua New Guinea and Solomon.

In each, the Queen of Sheba comes to visit Solomon and is impressed by his wisdom and riches.

In the later years of the dynasty there was a growing belief that the Queen of Sheba had visited Solomon in Jerusalem, had been seduced by him and borne him a son named Henelik, who founded the Abyssinian royal line.

According to Ethiopia's national epic, the Kebra Negast, which describes how the country's emperors were descended from King Solomon and the Queen of Sheba, their son, Menelik I, travelled from Ethiopia to visit Solomon in Jerusalem.

This dynasty is said to have been founded in the 10th century BC by Menelik I. Menelik I was son of the Biblical King Solomon and Makeda, the Queen of Sheba, who had visited Solomon in Israel.

Its claims to a separate Arabic identity stretch back to 1000 B.C. and the days of Sheba, whose queen visited Solomon and whose wealth was founded on frankincense and myrrh - commodities in such demand by Roman times that hundreds of tons were exported every year.

Chief among these are Venus; The Virgin lifting a veil from the sleeping infant Christ; and the Queen of Sheba visiting Solomon.

Christianity apparently gained its strongest foothold in the ancient center of Semitic civilisation in southwest Arabia or Yemen, (sometimes known as Seba or Sheba), whose queen visited Solomon.