The Sabaeans or Sabæans (Arabic: السبأيين) were an ancient
people speaking an Old South Arabian language who lived in what
is today Yemen, in south west Arabian Peninsula. Some Sabaeans
also lived in D'mt, located in northern Ethiopia and Eritrea,
due to their hegemony over the Red Sea. The ancient Sabaean
Kingdom lasted from the early 2nd millennium to the 1st century
BC. In the 1st century BC it was conquered by the Himyarites,
but after the disintegration of the first Himyarite empire of
the Kings of Saba' and Dhu-Raydan the Middle Sabaean Kingdom
reappeared in the early 2nd century. It was finally conquered by
the Himyarites in the late 3rd century. Its capital was Ma'rib.
The kingdom was located along the strip of desert called Sayhad
by medieval Arab geographers and that is called now Ramlat al-
Sab`atayn. The Sabaean people were South Arabian people. Each of
these had regional kingdoms in ancient Yemen, with the Minaeans
in the north along the Red sea, the Sabeans on the south western
tip, streaching fr