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The Sabaeans were an ancient people who lived in what is today Yemen and north of Ethiopia and Eritrea and spoke a South Semitic language. Their '''Sabaean Kingdom''' lasted from 750 BC to 115 BC . Its was capital along the strip of Desert called Sayhad by Medieval Arab Geographers . The Sabaean people were one of four ancient Yemenite groups (Greek ''ethnos'') classified by Eratosthenes . The others were the Minaean Himyarite , and Qatabanian people. Each of these had regional kingdoms in ancient Yemen, though the Minaean Kingdom held dominance from approximately 1200 BC until 650 BC , and the Sabaeans after them. The Sabaeans, as were the other Arabian and Yemenite kingdoms of the same period, were involved in the extremely lucrative Spice Trade , especially Frankincense and Myrrh . {Link without Title} Most archaeologists now believe them to be the same nation as the Biblical kingdom of Sheba . They left behind many inscriptions in the Musnad (Old South Arabian) alphabet. They were Polytheistic , and should not be confused with the Sabians mentioned in the Qur'an , whose name is written with the Arabic letter ''sad'' rather than ''sin''. SEE ALSO REFERENCES EXTERNAL LINK
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