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Was Marijuana One of The Queen of Sheba's Spices?

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Submitted by Marijuana News on Wed, 05/20/2015 - 08:00

CANNABIS CULTURE - The biblical Queen of Sheba, who also appears unnamed in the Quran and is claimed by the Ethiopians as theirs, famously brought gold and spices to King Solomon, circa 950 BC. But what exactly did she bring and where was she from?

Two ancient Yemeni peoples, the Mineans and the Sabaeans, were involved in the lucrative spice trade. Some archaeologists think the Queen of Sheba was a Sabaean from the Semitic civilization of Saba (1200 BC–275 AD) in Southern Arabia, now Yemen.

The inscription on a wooden sarcophagus of 264 BC from Egypt now in the Cairo Museum shows it contained the body of Zayd’il bin Zayd, a Minaean trader who "imported myrrh and calamus for the temples of the gods of Egypt". Researcher Sula Benet argues that in the earliest Greek translations of the Old Testament, "kan" was rendered as "reed", leading to the erroneous...

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