Since last June, a meticulous urban archaeology project carried out in the historic center of Lecce, in the southeastern tip of Italy, has been rewriting the darkest chapters of the city’s history, ...

Human history is punctuated by epidemics that have profoundly marked societies. Among them, the Justinian Plague remains one of the most mysterious. Nearly 1,500 years after its emergence, a team ...

USF and FAU researchers identify bacterium behind 1,500-year-old pandemic mystery. For the first time, scientists have obtained direct genomic evidence of the bacterium responsible for the Plague of ...

The Byzantine Empire stood for a thousand years after the fall of Rome, but was it truly the heir to ancient Greek civilization? In this video, we explore the empire’s culture, language, and ...

Scientists are looking into a possible link. This is an Inside Science story. (Inside Science) -- By examining the literal dustbins of history, archaeologists have now shed light on how a 125-year ...

PanARMENIAN.Net - On September 21, Armenia’s Independence Day, the History Museum of Armenia will open a landmark exhibition ...

Scientists have found the "missing piece" of the puzzle behind the devastating disease that reshaped the Byzantine Empire.

Scientists have deciphered the genome of the bacterium behind the world's first recorded pandemic that swept through the eastern Mediterranean about 1,500 years ago. At such a critical moment in US ...

The truth behind Byzantium's "purple-born" emperors lies in the fascinating symbolism of Tyrian purple and the Porphyra ...

If you consider the Roman Empire to have ended in 476 and count only emperors who were old enough to rule for their entire ...