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

Emperor Justinian I and Empress Theodora were the 6th Century golden couple of the Byzantine Empire. Think Jay-Z and Beyonce - but with a lot more chariots. Script and narration by Emma Nagouse, ...

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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 ...

The find definitively links the pathogen to the Justinian Plague marking the first pandemic (AD 541–750), resolving one of history's long-standing mysteries. For centuries, historians have deliberated ...

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 ...

Byzantine Empress Theodora, would become an actress, prostitute, mistress, feminist, empress of the civilized world, and saint.

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Before the infamous Black Death cast its shadow across Europe, another great plague ravaged the Mediterranean, killing swathes of people. Over the course of two centuries, the Justinian plague wiped ...