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After 25 years as a Hell’s Kitchen staple, Queen of Sheba — the much-loved Ethiopian restaurant on 10th Avenue — will serve its final meal on April 26, with owner Philipos Mengistu citing slow ...
From biblical times to the present, 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; ...
Halle Berry played her in a made-for-TV movie. In the film “Black Is King,” Beyoncé describes herself as an heir to her legacy. In the Starz TV series “American Gods,” she’s a love goddess who devours ...
The Ethiopian branch of Christianity first emerged in the kingdom of Aksum in the northern corner of the Ethiopian highlands. The person who introduced Christianity to Aksum is said to be ...
The Ethiopian Orthodox Church dates the top-down Christianization of Aksum circa 330 AD with King Ezana’s conversion to the monotheistic religion, under the influence of bishop Frumentius. Although ...