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...vast temple complex covering more than 6 hectares. In addition to a thicket of buildings on either side of the hall, the radar has spotted a water well and what appears to be a grand causeway linking Mahram Bilqis with the ancient citadel of Marib, which rises above the desert about five km to the north. A separate team from the German Archaeological Institute, meanwhile, has uncovered dozens of multistory mausoleums in a cemetery area southwest of the oval enclosure. "We have excavated less than 1% of the entire site," Glanzman marvels. "This is the largest...
...northern Yemen. Known in Arabic as Mahram Bilqis - "the Queen of Sheba's sanctified place" - the sprawling ruins are situated about 130 km east of Yemen's capital, Sana'a, and just a few kilometers from the ancient citadel of Marib, at the edge of the forbidding Arabian desert. "The Queen of Sheba," he asserts, "is likely to have lived in Marib and worshipped at Mahram Bilqis...
...Queen at Mahram Bilqis since 1843, when Joseph Thomas Arnaud, a French apothecary, arrived in search of the spices she brought to Solomon. By then, the site had long since been abandoned. The temple itself had ceased to be used sometime in the 6th century A.D., and the expanding desert had covered much of the complex. Sheba searchers returned to the region sporadically, most recently in the 1950s, when American oilman and explorer Wendell Phillips led an expedition that was driven out by political upheavals in Yemen...
Despite the concerns of family members back in the Southern California desert, the Wettsteins say they are determined not to allow fear to change their plans...
...Bush's father had the same people around him during Desert Storm, but he bore the solitary burden of a President at war. On Friday at the Washington National Cathedral, after the President delivered his homily, Bush senior reached over to squeeze his son's hand, his eyes not looking at him but raised toward the heavens. Like few others, he knows that the President...