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Much is written about the famous Queen of Sheba in  biblical sources and elsewhere, but few facts are known about her.  She may well have been the historical …

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Much is written about the famous Queen of Sheba in  biblical sources and elsewhere, but few facts are known about her.  She may well have been the historical Makeda or Bilkis, Queen of Saba (in modern day Yemen). She is also referred to as Queen of Arabia and Egypt.   Accordingly I have mixed a bunch of  Middle Eastern, African and Classical motifs together, and here's the result for your perusal. 

I ran into hardware imitations on  this, so the second image is a layered version; I first rendered the queen, elephant , lepopard handlers etc, then using that image as a backdrop, added the musicians and dancers... it worked reasonably well without needing photoshop manupiulation and here's the result....  I might go one further for a bigger crowd when I have time ; watch this space!

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