The Queen of Sheba is the Greta Garbo of antiquity. A glamorous, mysterious figure immortalized in the Bible and the Quran, celebrated in an oratorio by Handel, an opera by Charles Gounod, a ...

Wars and calamities aside, civilizations have a way of sustaining themselves. Ask Ricardo Eichmann, an archaeologist who is applying science to the story of the queen of Sheba, and has found no ...

The figure of the Queen of Sheba and the historical veracity of her visit to Solomon occupy such an important place in Ethiopian identity that Ethiopia's first constitution, promulgated in 1931 ...

The Queen of Sheba appears here as a conflation of two passages in the Old Testament of the Bible, one quasi-historical, the other metaphorical. The account of her voyage from Sheba to Jerusalem ...

Layers of the legend. The Queen of Sheba - an exotic and mysterious woman of power - is immortalised in the world's great religious works, among them the Hebrew Bible and the Muslim Koran.