Meet the real Bilquis, Queen of Sheba Bilquis identifies herself as the Queen of Sheba, an ancient Ethiopian monarch and a forgotten goddess now in reduced circumstances.

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.

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 ...

Explore the mystery of the Queen of Sheba, who visited King Solomon in the Bible. Learn about the evolution of her legend in ancient and medieval texts like the Qur'an and Kebra Nagast and works by ...

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 ...

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The queen of Sheba came to stand as an ideal type for the willing reception of Christianity by pagan lands. Around her were gathered whole hosts of people left out of the original biblical promise.

Detail of Solomon Greeting the Queen of Sheba from Lorenzo Ghiberti’s Gates of Paradise (1452) From biblical times to the present, she’s been an elusive figure who’s proved highly adaptable — a wise ...

The Queen of Sheba comes across as intelligent, self-assured and as a philosopher. In some texts, she’s just a mirror for Solomon, without much substance of her own, but in the “Kebra Nagast ...