Is this the same country - the mysterious biblical “Sheba” (Arabic “Saba”), from the unknown depths of which the Queen of Sheba comes to the court of King Solomon with gifts - a whole caravan of camels loaded with incense, gold and precious stones, and “Arabia the Happy,” which the Roman legions tried to obtain with the sword under Augustus? But between the “age of Solomon” and the “age of Augustus” there was almost a millennium... Archaeological excavations in Yemen, simultaneously carried out by expeditions from different countries in the last third of the last century, dispelled all doubts and made it possible to fill the thousand-year “gap” in history. An entire civilization emerged from underground to meet the white light. The fascinating story of the leader of French archaeologists, J.-F., is dedicated to it. Breton.