Этот библейский эпос, поставленный режиссером Кингом Видором является кинематографическим осмыслением плотских грехов и языческих богопреклонений. Картина, снятая в Испании, запечатлела подвиги незабвенных персонажей. Юл Бриннер олицетворяет здесь сильного и идеалистического Соломона. А чувственная Джина Лоллобриджида - великолепна в роли величественной и соблазнительной Царицы.

The Queen of Sheba falls in love with the King of Israel. The King of Israel, however, is in love with someone else.

In Israel, a joint French-Israeli scientific mission is set to unearth the secrets of the hill of Kiryath-Jearim (or Kiryat Ya’arim), converted to the site of a Catholic convent, where, according to the Bible, the Ark of the Covenant was kept for at least twenty years before being brought to Jerusalem by King David, father of King Solomon, who would eventually build the Holy of Holies inside the First Temple to house it.

An account of the reign of Herod the Great, king of Judea under the rule of the Roman Empire, remembered for having ordered, according to the Gospel of Matthew, the murder of all male infants born in Bethlehem at the time of the birth of Jesus, an unproven event that is not mentioned by Titus Flavius Josephus, the main historian of that period.

In the first century, after the death of Herod the Great, Judea goes through a long period of turbulence due to the actions of the corrupt Roman governors and the internal struggles, both religious and political, between Jewish factions, events that soon lead to the uprising of the population and a cruel war that lasts several years and causes thousands of deaths, a catastrophe described in detail by the Romanized Jewish historian Titus Flavius Josephus.