…King Solomon loved many strange women, together with the daughter of Pharaoh, women of the Moabites, Ammonites, Edomites, Zidonians, and Hittites… And he had seven hundred wives, princesses, and three hundred concubines… —I Kings, Chapter 11, The Bible The Visit of the Queen of Sheba to King Solomon by Edward Poynter Currently on exhibit at the Art Gallery of New South Wales (I searched a long time to find an image in the public domain that didn't show the queen, who is generally believed to have been from Ethiopia or Yemen —although her title implies she may have been from India— without the pale, extremely white skin associated with Europeans. It is far more