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Show Trace the Source of Queen of Sheba's Gold The ruins of Zimbabwe in Mashon-aland, Mashon-aland, southern Rhodesia, are interesting inter-esting and extensive and but little Is known of them, although it is more than possible that they have some important bearing on the early history his-tory of man. Accordingly an English Eng-lish expedition is about to investigate investi-gate the ruins from a scientific standpoint. stand-point. It is thought to be possible that they will find some explanation of the source of the 120 talents of gold which the queen of Sheba presented pre-sented to Solomon, and some of the other wealth of that time. The gold mines of Rhodesia were worked during dur-ing an era corresponding to the reigns of those monarchs, and many relics found in the temples and other ruined buildings are distinctly Asiatic. Zimbabwe was the mythical "dead city" of Sir Rider Haggard's "She." It also figures in his other novels, "Allan Quatermain," and "King Solomon's Solo-mon's Mines." The natives regard it with superstitious fear. These facts have helped make it a city of mystery mys-tery and conjecture. |