A new study, though, has posited that a climactic event called the Late Antique Little Ice Age may have been the straw that ...

One of the world’s most famous religious buildings, Istanbul’s Hagia Sophia was extraordinary when it was built in the sixth ...

The Byzantine Emperor Justinian I came close to uniting the former Roman Empire less than a century after its fall. However, popular discontent, foreign war, and a plague all combined to bring his ...

Core elements of Roman law can be traced back to the ancient Greek world. Roman law has been fundamental to the foundations ...

The Western Roman Empire had already fallen by the time this ... For example, the LALIA coincided with the Justinian Plague, which began in 541 CE and killed between 30 and 50 million people ...

The period from the late fourth to the sixth century C.E. saw the collapse of the Roman empire in the West ... from the accession of emperor Theodosius I to the death of emperor Justinian I. In the ...

The cooling coincided with the onset of the Justinian Plague ... temperatures had a "very significant impact" on the Eastern Roman Empire. "In this way, it seems likely that the Late Antique ...

In his book “The Fall of the Roman Empire, A New History of Rome and the Barbarians,” historian Peter Heather said Justinian paid “15-20,000 pounds of gold.” The “Istanbul Encyclopedia ...