In 1453, Constantinople was no longer the metropolis of Justinian. Its population had shrunk dramatically. Entire districts were fields. The Hippodrome lay in ruins. The Great Palace was largely ...

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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 ...

In the mid-sixth century, a devastating disease swept across the Byzantine world and changed the course of entire cities. The ...

ULPIANA, KOSOVO—Vox News Albania reports that Kosovan Minister of Culture Hajrulla Çeku announced that a team of archaeologists uncovered a rare mosaic inscription linked with the Byzantine emperor ...

An ancient mass grave in Jerash, Jordan uncovers new details about one of the earliest recorded pandemics in history. The Plague of Justinian spread across the Byzantine Empire between 541 and 750 CE, ...

Justinian, emperor of Rome from 527-565, was famous for two things. First, he had the misfortune to be emperor during the outbreak of a pandemic that would ultimately bear his name. This devastating ...

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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 ...