 The British Museum states that there is no archaeological evidence for such a queen but that the kingdom described as hers was "Saba", "the oldest and most important of the South Arabian kingdoms".Kenneth Kitchen dates the kingdom to between 1200 BCE and 275 CE with its capital, Ma'rib.The kingdom fell after a long but sporadic civil war between several Yemenite dynasties claiming kingship, resulting in the rise of the late Himyarite Kingdom.