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<p>[QUOTE="Bronwen, post: 1246525, member: 5833"]<a href="https://www.metmuseum.org/art/metpublications/two_riddles_of_the_queen_of_sheba_the_metropolitan_museum_journal_v_6_1972" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://www.metmuseum.org/art/metpublications/two_riddles_of_the_queen_of_sheba_the_metropolitan_museum_journal_v_6_1972" rel="nofollow">https://www.metmuseum.org/art/metpublications/two_riddles_of_the_queen_of_sheba_the_metropolitan_museum_journal_v_6_1972</a></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p>Paper has a different answer to the riddle about telling males from females: females kneel.</p><p><br /></p><p>I did not know about this extensive tradition of the riddles. Really interesting. Some of the answers given are more puzzling to a modern reader than the questions. Many could not readily be turned into pictures.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="Bronwen, post: 1246525, member: 5833"][URL]https://www.metmuseum.org/art/metpublications/two_riddles_of_the_queen_of_sheba_the_metropolitan_museum_journal_v_6_1972[/URL] Paper has a different answer to the riddle about telling males from females: females kneel. I did not know about this extensive tradition of the riddles. Really interesting. Some of the answers given are more puzzling to a modern reader than the questions. Many could not readily be turned into pictures.[/QUOTE]
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