King Solomon's Mines

King Solomon's Mines is a popular novel by the English Victorian adventure writer and fabulist Sir H. Rider Haggard. It tells of a search of an unexplored region of Africa by a group of adventurers led by Allan Quatermain for the missing brother of one of the party. The mines, however, were likely operated by the Edomites, a semi-nomadic tribe that battled constantly with Israel, the researchers s...