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HISTORY OF CHRISTIANITY IN THE LANDS OF MY TOIL: PROF. M. M. NINAN<br />

her entourage to Ethiopia, confounded her language to Himyaritic, a copy <strong>of</strong> <strong>the</strong> Ark was made and<br />

she allowed <strong>the</strong> buried palace and its courtyard to be consumed by <strong>the</strong> desert sands. There it<br />

rema<strong>in</strong>ed for almost 3000 years until it was discovered by Wendell Philips, ironically <strong>the</strong> character on<br />

whom Indiana Jones was based <strong>in</strong> <strong>the</strong> movie, Raiders <strong>of</strong> <strong>the</strong> Lost Ark.<br />

(Inscription [right] describes <strong>the</strong> mo<strong>the</strong>r "M" dimm<strong>in</strong>g her nation for <strong>the</strong> Lord.)<br />

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https://www.newscientist.com/article/dn21976-genes-reveal-gra<strong>in</strong>-<strong>of</strong>-truth-to-queen-<strong>of</strong>-sheba-story/<br />

Luca Pagani <strong>of</strong> <strong>the</strong> Wellcome Trust Sanger Institute <strong>in</strong> H<strong>in</strong>xton, UK, exam<strong>in</strong>ed samples <strong>of</strong> Ethiopian<br />

genomes and noticed that some <strong>in</strong>dividuals had components <strong>of</strong> both African and non-African l<strong>in</strong>eages.<br />

Delv<strong>in</strong>g deeper, Pagani and his colleagues discovered that <strong>the</strong> non-African genetic components had<br />

much more <strong>in</strong> common with people liv<strong>in</strong>g <strong>in</strong> Syria and around <strong>the</strong> eastern Mediterranean than <strong>in</strong> <strong>the</strong><br />

nearer Arabian pen<strong>in</strong>sula. What’s more, <strong>the</strong> gene flow probably took place around 3000 years ago.<br />

One <strong>of</strong> <strong>the</strong> four language families <strong>of</strong> Ethiopia migrated from <strong>the</strong> same region about 3000 years ago.<br />

“Middle Eastern language came to Ethiopia along with Middle Eastern genes,” Pagani says. “And that<br />

is when <strong>the</strong> Queen <strong>of</strong> Sheba legend is supposed to have happened.”<br />

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