Believed to have been built during Emperor Justinian’s reign (527-565 A.D.), the tile art piece is the oldest surviving map of Jordan’s Holy Lands. The map is located in Madaba, Jordan ...

But the earliest known bubonic plague outbreak — the Plague of Justinian — took hold in the Mediterranean Basin and lasted from AD 541 to AD 544. Another plague outbreak emerged in China in ...

Learn why Sweden is partnering with the World Bank in the Governance & Institutions Umbrella Programs. Meet Carlos Orjales, Senior Program Manager, State Secretariat for Economic Affairs (SECO), ...

Some 1,500 years after its founding by Byzantine Emperor Justinian, and after surviving major historical and religious challenges, the revered monastery is set to become a museum by the Egyptian ...

The Black Death was caused by the same bacteria which caused Plague of Justinian, the first plague pandemic which had broken out in the mid-500s. The third plague pandemic began in China in 1855 and ...

Saint Catherine’s Monastery, founded in the 6th century by Byzantine Emperor Justinian I, is considered the oldest continuously operating Christian monastery in the world. It is a UNESCO World ...

The monastery, founded by the Byzantine Emperor Justinian 15 centuries ago, has long enjoyed global renown and respect. Despite numerous historical upheavals, it has miraculously endured.

Among the rare manuscripts on display are Isidore’s Etymologiae, a 20-volume 7th-century encyclopedia exploring the meaning of words; Priscian’s Institutiones Grammaticae, a Latin grammar book ...

The first pandemic, the Justinian Plague (which occurred roughly between A.D. 542 and 750), slashed the population in parts of the Mediterranean to by an estimated 40% by the end of the sixth century.

Once the largest cathedral in the world, the Hagia Sophia in Istanbul, Turkey, has stood for more than 1500 years along the banks of the Bosporus Strait and has housed three religious groups.

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