Which modern day country did the Queen of Sheba come from?
First of all we must correct the English translation of the Hebrew text in the Bible which refers to Queen Sheba. She was not Queen of Sheba but Queen Sheba of Ophir. We now know that Ophir (or Auphirah, Afriha = Africa) was the Biblical word for Africa. In King Solomon’s time, most Africans lived along the River Nile. Today, the countries of the Nile are Ethiopia, The Sudan and Egypt. So Sheba was Queen of these countries. When Sheba visited Solomon in circa 950 BC, Only The Sudan and Egypt were well populated. Modern Ethiopia was sparsely populated but the descendants of Queen Sheba’s people now populate Ethiopia and the rest of the African continent as well. “The Sudan” is derived from an old Egyptian term for the South and North or “sut-en-bat”. Sheba was Queen of the Sut or South. That’s why Jesus is quoted as naming her “Queen of the South” in the Gospels of the Bible. A contemporary of the apostle Paul was a former Jewish leader named Josephus Flavius. He named this queen the “Q
