Last month an ancient bronze tablet went up for sale at the Artemis auction house in Louisville, Colorado. The tablet is somewhere between 2000-3000 years old and is written in the ancient Yemeni ...

Like every building dedication in the 3,000 years since, the Temple opening ceremony has a big crowd, too many dignitaries, long speeches, and bad weather—the cloud caused by the Lord’s presence ...

This image is part of a weekly series that The Root is presenting in conjunction with the Image of the Black in Western Art Archive at Harvard University’s W.E.B. Du Bois Research Institute, part of ...

A British excavation has struck archaeological gold with a discovery that may solve the mystery of where the Queen of Sheba of biblical legend derived her fabled treasures. Almost 3,000 years ago, the ...

Michael Wood explores the historical background to the legend of the Queen of Sheba, and discusses the role she plays in the cultural traditions of the Red Sea region. The Queen of Sheba - an exotic ...