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...responsible for the worst instances of terrorism ever committed on American soil quickly centered on Osama bin Laden, the Saudi millionaire exile who has been accused of masterminding past acts of terrorism against the U.S., including last year’s bombing of a U.S. navy ship near Yemen, as well as the 1998 bombings of two U.S. embassies in Africa. Islamic terrorists targeted the World Trade Center in 1993, killing six and injuring more than 1,000 others...
...actually existed--or even what her name might have been. The Arabs call her Bilqis (thought to be a religious honorific), the Greeks Black Minerva and the Ethiopians Makeda, or "Greatness," but these are only titles. "Sheba" is simply an alternate spelling of Saba, the kingdom in modern-day Yemen where she is said to have reigned for a score of years beginning about 950 B.C. And while Cleopatra, the other storied beauty of Middle Eastern royalty, is mentioned in contemporary secular texts, the Queen of Sheba appears only in religious works--not the most authoritative source...
...team of archaeologists has been searching for hard evidence of the Queen's existence since 1988, and according to project field director William Glanzman of the University of Calgary, the solution to the mystery may lie amid the ruins of a 3,500-year-old temple complex in northern Yemen. Known in Arabic as Mahram Bilqis--"the Queen of Sheba's sanctified place"--the sprawling ruins are situated about 80 miles east of Yemen's capital, Sana'a, and just a few miles from the ancient citadel of Marib, at the edge of the forbidding Arabian desert. "The Queen...
...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...
...With reporting by Scott MacLeod/Sana'a, Yemen, Elaine Shannon and Mark Thompson/Washington and Edward Barnes and William Dowell/New York