Mystery of Queen Sheba revived [Archives:2002/22/Local News]

ABDUH M. ASSABRI
YEMEN TIMES STAFF
From 9 June to the 13 October this year, the British Museum has reserved the recently opened Grand Court for the Queen of Sheba: Treasures from Ancient Yemen exhibition which will be similar in content to the exhibition held at the Institut du Monde Arabe in Paris in 1997-1998 and which has since toured other European cities.
Items from the British Museums own collection will be included. A number of side events and activities are being organized to coincide with the exhibition. The Arabian Studies Seminar will be held at the British Museum this year from 18-20 July.
An extensive education program will accompany the exhibition. This will include an academic conference in July, a series of study days in June and September, a film program and a week of events related to the Ancient Near East in Early October.
The exhibition will begin with an examination of the Queen of Sheba in art, looking modern, 19th century and Renaissance representations. She is variously viewed as a figure of beauty and seduction, the propounder of riddles to King Solomon, (the Old Testament) a convert to Islam (the Quraan), and precursor of the Magi (Western Christian artistic tradition)
As a result of this, A dinner party was held at the H.E. Francis Guys residence, the British Ambassador to Yemen. on May 22. The party was attended by the Culture Minister, Abdulwahab Arrowhani, who is expected to fly to London to participate in inaugurating the Queen Sheba Museum in London. the Chairman of the British-Yemeni Society, Abdullah Abulwali Nasher, top officials, parliamentary figures, journalists and a host of others.


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