An illustration of the Queen of Sheba from Konrad Kyeser's "Bellifortis" ("Strong in War"), a military treatise from Germany circa 1405. Halle Berry played her in a 1995 made-for-TV movie.

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.

LINCOLN — The Queen of Sheba may have a modern-day image as a femme fatale — think of the sultry Gina Lollobrigida opposite Yul Brynner in the 1959 movie "Solomon and Sheba" — but best ...

The Queen of Sheba is the great eastern muse, shifting shape, race, appearance, according to the beholder. She may be historical, or she may be mythical, but she is still world famous.

Known in Arabic as Mahram Bilqis — “the Queen of Sheba’s sanctified place” — the sprawling ruins are situated about 130 km east of Yemen’s capital, Sana’a, and just a few kilometers ...

In this episode, Greg Jenner is joined by Dr Jillian Stinchcomb and comedian Sadia Azmat to learn all about the legendary Queen of Sheba. From her first appearance in the Hebrew Bible, the Queen ...

The legendary Queen of Sheba (known in the Islamic world as Balqis or Bilqis) is a fascinating and perplexing figure. She is the only woman of note in the Bible or Koran who wields political power.

The Legend of Sheba: Rise of a Queen Tosca Lee. Howard, $23.99 (320p) ISBN 978-1-4516-8404-9 ...