Between 541 and 544, there was also the first and most severe documented occurrence of the Justinianic plague in the eastern Roman Empire (also referred to as the Byzantine Empire), in which ...

George Maniakes was a tremendously talented general with a famously bad temper who challenged the Byzantine emperor for the ...

Ice age triggered by volcanic ash from three massive eruptions that lowered global temperatures may have caused the Roman ...

A new study has bolstered the theory that a dramatic climate shift known as the Late Antique Little Ice Age (LALIA) played a ...

Michael III, the "Alcoholic" Byzantine Emperor, ruled surprisingly well despite his controversial behavior and personal ...

Members of Trump’s coterie are obsessed with ancient Rome and its collapse. But their interpretation of Roman history is ...

Sometime between the mid-first century and early second century CE, Roman legionaries clashed with Germanic fighters near the ...

The ancient Romans were pioneers in many aspects of medicine, but their treatments and surgeries were often painful, gruesome ...

The way the Roman Empire developed, was gradually to take over more and more territories in the eastern Mediterranean. Some of these were governed as provinces. You can imagine the Roman Empire ...

the Western Empire and the Eastern Empire. The Western Roman Empire had already fallen by the time this climatic shift began around 540 CE. It was conquered by a Germanic king some 60 years earlier.