Discover Belisarius, the military genius who reconquered Rome, Africa, and Italy for the Byzantine Empire with a tiny elite ...
His dreams were shattered when disease-bearing mice from lower Egypt reached the harbor town of Pelusium in AD 540. From there, the devastating disease spread to Alexandria and, by ship, to ...
Born into a peasant family in 482, Justinian was, in the words of John Julius Norwich, the ”greatest of all the Byzantine Emperors…after Constantine himself”. Reigning from 527 to 565, Justinian ...
Hagia Sophia today: Over the past 1500 years it has been a Greek Orthodox and Catholic cathedral, an Ottoman mosque, a museum - and again now a mosque (Getty) British and other researchers have ...
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