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; a Black feminist pop icon. There’s ...

“That makes her really exciting for people to think about, especially in the modern period when we’re so hungry for models of powerful, self-assured women.” The queen is first mentioned in the Bible’s ...

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 ...