 Josh Bernstein travels 4,000 miles in search of the lost gold of the biblical King Solomon, who was so rich that he had shippers supplying him with an estimated 24 tons of gold each year. According to the Bible, the source of Solomon s legendary wealth was the gold mines located in the mysterious land of Ophir. But nobody knows where Ophir was. Josh begins in Negev, Israel, where he does find ancient mines, but they are veined with copper, not gold. Some scholars think Ophir was in Africa, so Josh retraces the ancient mariners  path in a voyage across the Red Sea to Zimbabwe. There, he travels down a mine-shaft almost half a mile below ground level to see workers extracting gold. Josh also visits the ruins of Great Zimbabwe, an ancient city, but cannot prove that it was connected with Solomon. He winds up in Ethiopia, which is alleged to be where the Queen of Sheba reigned, and discovers gold miners who are still using methods thousands of years old.