A mass grave in Jordan reveals a devastating outbreak of Justinian plague that brought a city to its knees in a matter of ...

A newly confirmed mass grave in the ancient city of Jerash, Jordan, offers chilling insight into one of history’s first recorded pandemics. Hundreds of plague victims were buried within a matter of ...

Amalasuntha, the daughter of Theoderic the Great, ruled the Ostrogothic Kingdom of Italy as regent after her father’s death. A supporter of Roman culture and diplomacy with the Byzantine Empire, she ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...