The period from the late fourth to the sixth century C.E. saw the collapse of the Roman empire in the West, and the emergence of the Eastern or “Byzantine” empire, with a distinctive culture that ...

Researchers from the Austrian Archaeological Institute of the Austrian Academy of Sciences (ÖAW) have discovered an early Christian Basilica in Aquileia, Italy. The church flaunts a monumental ...

In this comprehensive account, Cambridge University historian Sarris (Empires of Faith) examines the reign of Eastern Roman emperor Justinian (482–565). Following his adoptive father Justin’s death in ...

Evidence of a vast harbour, alongside more than 700 kilograms of Late Roman amphora fragments, has been uncovered during ...

In 542 AD, during the Gothic War—a conflict sparked by Emperor Justinian’s ambition to restore Roman rule in the West—Eastern Roman forces under Constantianus and Alexander faced the Ostrogoths near ...

In the 6th century AD, during the reign of Emperor Justinian, the Roman Empire experienced an extraordinary resurgence, reconquering lands - including Italy, North Africa and Rome itself - that had ...

Explore the dramatic rise of Hagia Sophia as Emperor Justinian transforms the ruins of Constantinople’s greatest church into a marvel of Roman engineering. From the deadly Nika riots that left 30,000 ...

A view from the area of the recently unearthed basilica to the Cathedral of Aquileia. Photo by the Austrian Academy of Sciences Unbeknownst to a group of researchers digging near a small Italian town, ...

Our findings provide the missing piece of that puzzle, offering the first direct genetic window into how this pandemic unfolded at the heart of the empire." The Plague of Justinian first appeared in ...