This video shows how Justinian tried to make Rome great again – reconquering lost lands, crushing enemies, and restoring ...

In 554 AD, with the Ostrogoths defeated, the Eastern Roman general Narses believed the Italian campaign was complete. But a ...

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 ...

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 ...

In 541 C.E., after years of campaigning against Goths and Vandals, Emperor Justinian I had built the eastern Roman Empire into a vast dominion, nearly encircling the Mediterranean Sea. That year, ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...