The authors analyze shipwreck data and conclude that, far from a trade decline in the 6th century ... is more associated with military conflicts and political changes than natural phenomena.
A new study suggests the Byzantine Empire’s decline wasn’t caused by the Justinian Plague, but may have even experienced a ...
He’s the mythical Celtic warlord who held out against the Anglo Saxon invasion of Britain. His right-hand man was a wizard, ...
Throughout history, sieges have been a testament to the resilience, strategy, and endurance of both attackers and defenders.
Malmesbury, in Wiltshire, was the first capital of England and is steeped in history dating back to medieval times. It is the ...
AMMAN - The modern village of Khirbet Ain is located some seven kilometres southwest of Rihab, a hilly area with seasonal springs accessible by roa ...
These traits oppose military ... By the sixth century CE, Byzantine eunuchs found themselves in charge of large armies. (What we now call the Byzantine Empire, or the Eastern Roman Empire, was ...
adding that an early 4th-century building inscription from the legionary fortress at Udhruh does not give us the name of the settlement, but makes it clear that this Roman military camp was rebuilt by ...
put up in the 3rd century by a Buddhist devotee from Gujarat: “In the sixth year of King Philip [ie the Roman Emperor Philip the Arab, in 249 CE], the kshatriya [warrior] Vasula gave this image ...
Its distinctive board of concentric squares has been found carved onto Roman building sites and Renaissance church ... Chess ...
In the 1740s the expanding Moravian community in Bethlehem was working for places to grow food for its population.