The small kingdoms of Saba, Himyar, and Hadramawat, across the Red Sea from the Ethiopian kingdom of Aksum, gradually transitioned into a unified Himyar, or Haymyar in Arabic.
The head of the BBC's Persian service Sadeq Saba says family members of at least 15 London based staff were called in by the Intelligence Ministry in Teheran.
He and Ms. Phillips collaborated with colleagues from Saba's forestry department and the natural history museum in London to set up climbing lines in local trees and use them to collect birds nest ferns.