A British historian believes that King Solomon’s gold treasure in the Bible never existed.
Portrait sketch of King Solomon. Photo: Emaze.
British historian Ralph Ellis believes that King Solomon’s treasure of 500 tons of pure gold worth $3,000 billion mentioned in the Bible is just a legendary story that is not true, according to Independent.
After 20 years of research, Ellis believes that Solomon was not even the king of Israel but was in fact the Egyptian pharaoh Shoshenq I, who ruled Egypt and Israel in the late 10th century BC.
“According to the Bible, King Solomon was incredibly wealthy. But generations of theologians and archaeologists have searched the holy land in search of capitals, palaces, temples and riches yours without success,” Ellis said.
According to Ellis, we may be looking for things that aren’t real or in the wrong place. “A wealthy and powerful Jewish dynasty existed, like those mentioned in the Bible, but they were not merely kings and their capital was not in Jerusalem,” Elli said. .
Ellis believes that if his theory is correct, Pharaoh Solomon’s possessions are among the artifacts on display at the Museum of Egyptian Antiquities in Cairo.
