King SOLOMON's Mines is a classic adventure novel written by H. Rider Haggard in 1885. It tells the story of a search of an unexplored region of Africa by a group of adventurers led by Allan Quatermain for the legendary wealth said to be concealed in the mines of the KING SOLOMON. The novel is considered to be the first in the Lost World literary genre and has been adapted numerous times for film and television. The term KING SOLOMON'S MINES is a 5 letter word.