Alice C. Linsley
The tribe of Sheba is credited with the earliest domestication, breeding and export of horses. This has been confirmed by the discovery of a 9000-year-old horse burial in Asir Province of Saudi Arabia on the Yemen border. Yemen is the traditional homeland of the people of Sheba.
The people of Sheba were the descendants of the son of Raamah and their territory extended from the southwestern part of Arabia northward to Beersheba (the well of Sheba). Sheba was the brother of Dedan (Gen. 10:7). The region of Dedan is where the oldest Arabic texts have been found.
The people of Sheba and Dedan are connected to Abraham. Abraham's wife Keturah resided at Beersheba and her firstborn son was the father of Dedan the Younger (Gen. 25:3). Most Arabs are descended from Abraham through Joktan (Yaqtan). Josephus knew him as Joctan and his name is preserved in the ancient town of Jectan near Mecca.
The people of Sheba were the descendants of the son of Raamah and their territory extended from the southwestern part of Arabia northward to Beersheba (the well of Sheba). Sheba was the brother of Dedan (Gen. 10:7). The region of Dedan is where the oldest Arabic texts have been found.
The people of Sheba and Dedan are connected to Abraham. Abraham's wife Keturah resided at Beersheba and her firstborn son was the father of Dedan the Younger (Gen. 25:3). Most Arabs are descended from Abraham through Joktan (Yaqtan). Josephus knew him as Joctan and his name is preserved in the ancient town of Jectan near Mecca.
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| Mud Residence at oasis in Asir Province |
The Saudi Arabian Department of Museums and Antiquities recently reported the discovery of a 9,000-year-old horse burial at al-Maqar, along with a 3-foot-tall bust of a horse.
Ali al-Ghabban said that a Neolithic site at al-Maqar in Asir province has revealed the earliest evidence of horse domestication. “This discovery shows that horses were domesticated in the Arabian Peninsula for the first time more than 9,000 years ago,” said al-Ghabban. “Previous studies estimated the domestication of horses in Central Asia dating back 5,000 years.”
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| 9000-year old horse burial in the region of ancient Sheba |
In his book The Black Pharaohs, Robert Merkot reports that the people of Sheba were famous for breeding high quality horses which they exported throughout the ancient Afro-Asiatic Dominion.
Genesis 10 tells us that Sheba was a Kushite whose royal ancestors originated in ancient Kush. This is supported by the fact that the world's oldest saddles are from Nubia and the Upper Nile region that was Kush.
Genesis 10 tells us that Sheba was a Kushite whose royal ancestors originated in ancient Kush. This is supported by the fact that the world's oldest saddles are from Nubia and the Upper Nile region that was Kush.
Abraham and his wife Keturah were descendants of Sheba, Ham's great grandson. Sheba was a contemporary of Eber, Shem's great grandson. Eber’s son Joktan married a daughter of Sheba. She named their firstborn son Sheba, after her father, according to the cousin-bride's naming prerogative.
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| Map showing Sheba and the Joktanite Clans |
Keturah bore Abraham six sons. The firstborn was Joktan, named after Keturah's father. The Joktanite clans still live in the region of southern Arabia. They were close kin to the people of Sheba.
Related reading: Biblical Sheba and East African Settlements Linked; Afro-Arabian vs Aryan Religion: The Horse as Example
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