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Show thFancihnt land or ophib. Erldeno. That It Vu What Ii How Callad Monomotapa, Afrloa. From the Matabele Times! The Monomotapa region, in Rhodesia, it the ancient land of Ophir. The gold mines of the ancients are now rediscovered redis-covered and the gold ingot molds recently re-cently discovered in Rhodesia are identical iden-tical with the tin ingot molds used by the Phoenicians in Cornwall. It is believed that the Phoenicians worked the South African mines 2000 B. C. Scripture tells us how Hiram, the Phoenician king, brought enormous quantities of gold, ivory and slaves for King Solomon, and where could all of these have been discovered together and in such large quantities as described de-scribed in holy writ, if not In this portion por-tion of southeast Africa? Job's references ref-erences to "gold dust" locate the sources of Solomon's wealth in the parts, and certainly neither the "ivory" nor the "slaves" nor the "apes" of Bible Bi-ble history came from India, for Africa, Af-rica, as is well known, has ever been credited in history as the ivory, slave and ape producing country. Further, there is considerable doubt whether any other country, India included, could at that period have produced the quantity of gold mentioned in Chronicles Chron-icles and Kings. Scattered throughout this country are colossal ruins of fortresses, for-tresses, temples of distinctly Phoenician Phoeni-cian origin, identical with the ruins now seen In the land of the Phoenicians Phoeni-cians and built by the same race as erected Stonehenge on Salisbury plain and later built the rounded towers of Ireland. Here is the herringbone style of building, as in Arabia, Sardinia and the British Isles. There, too, are the gigantic monoliths, cloven stones and stone circles, with altars and sacred lnclosures. |