Somewhere deep in the African Congo in ancient times, the fabulous young Queen of Ophir sits on her throne, accompanied by two fan-bearing guards.
Ophir is a region named in the Bible as sending tribute such as gold, silver, ivory, and primates over to King Solomon of Israel. Ophir’s exact location (assuming it was a real place at all) remains unknown. It could have been the Indian subcontinent, or it might have been somewhere in Africa as I have chosen to portray here. One Portuguese writer who accompanied Vasco da Gama opined that Ophir was none other than the kingdom of Great Zimbabwe, although archaeologists now believe Great Zimbabwe came into being during the Middle Ages long after Biblical times.