As to whether Solomon's gold mines were merely legendary, as some would have it, Egyptologist Kenneth A. Kitchen writes: "Ophir itself is no myth.
Vanhu van'wana va vula leswaku timayini leti Solomoni a a wu kuma eka tona nsuku a ku nga ri ta xiviri, kambe mutivi wa swilo swa khale swa le Egipta Kenneth A. Kitchen u te: "Muti wa Ofiri a ku nga ri ntsheketo.