Erupting in AD 541–542 and returning for centuries, the Byzantine plague almost destroyed Justinian’s Byzantium.

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The strategy of the Byzantine Empire combined military skill, diplomacy, and innovation to ensure survival for centuries. Through fortified defenses, alliances, and the use of advanced tactics and ...

For more than a decade, the Culinary Backstreets team has been organising trips in Istanbul. One of the most delicious is the ...

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Perhaps Rabbi Mukhayriq’s devotion to a Messianic future of peace and brotherhood can inspire Islamic and Jewish religious leaders today—together—to heal past wounds, and to make Jerusalem and the ...

Archaeologists near the Sea of Galilee have discovered a rare, nearly 1,400-year-old hoard of gold coins and jewelry dating to the Byzantine era. The hoard contained 97 pure gold coins and dozens of ...

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Christopher Ilitch now heads the Ilitch family's pizza, sports and entertainment business empires under a formal succession plan announced last year. The plan specified that Chris Ilitch, 51, who is ...

From religious tales to crime thrillers, here are the Martin Scorsese movies that we'll never get to see. Martin Scorsese is responsible for some of the greatest movies of the past 50 years. Like all ...

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In 1896, General Weyler of Spain implemented the first wave of the Spanish "Reconcentracion Policy" that sent thousands of Cubans into concentration camps. Under Weyler's policy, the rural population ...