Anicia Juliana was a Byzantine woman who managed to conquer the fields of architecture, using her massive wealth and noble lineage.

from which the Queen of Sheba procured gold for the Temple of Solomon. This notion persisted for centuries, right up until the monument's 19 th-century European "discovery." That distinction fell ...

The Purim story begins about 900 years after the Exodus from Egypt, in what is now Iran, history repeats itself. The Jews had been living in Israel continually, since they first entered with Joshua.