Meet the Queen of Sheba, a scarcely mentioned figure in the Bible who has loomed large in the public imagination for hundreds of years. She’s been represented as an idolatrous Yemeni sun worshiper, ...

Over the years, Aksum became a major religious centre and an important place of Christian-Ethiopian pilgrimage. According to legend, Ethiopia is the kingdom of the Biblical Queen of Sheba, mother of ...

From biblical times to the present, she’s been an elusive figure who’s proved highly adaptable — a wise and powerful monarch; an idolatrous sun worshiper; the founding mother of an Ethiopian dynasty; ...

Other Portuguese chroniclers of the day linked the rumored fortress with the region's gold trade and decided it must be the biblical Ophir, from which the Queen of Sheba procured gold for the ...

Of more than 200 tels in Israel, Megiddo, Hazor and Beer Sheba are representative of those that contain substantial remains of cities with biblical connections. The three tels also present some of the ...