For a moment, the celestial world, the heavens of the Queen of Sheba, are in perfect balance. In the hedamo’s main room, a woman from a village a few miles off is preparing coffee for our arrival.

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 ...

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.