Researchers tell ‘human story’ about crisis during plague of Justinian, which killed millions in Byzantine empire ...

I entrusted the care of arms to my Belisarius, and so favorable did the divine hand show itself to him that it gave me the security to live peacefully. These words, which Dante Alighieri places in the ...

What many previous emperors before had failed to do, "we have decided now to grant to the world, with the help of Almighty God," announced the ambitious Justinian I with his wife, Theodora. Not ...

Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . The Yersinia pestis strain responsible for the Plague of Justinian between A.D. 541 and 543 was of a different ...

The Tentative Lists of States Parties are published by the World Heritage Centre at its website and/or in working documents in order to ensure transparency, access to information and to facilitate ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Researchers from the Austrian Archaeological Institute of the Austrian Academy of Sciences (ÖAW) have discovered an early ...

The Code of Justinian, a collection of laws compiled by Byzantine Emperor Justinian, is widely regarded as the foundation of Western law.