Some of the manuscripts on loan from Switzerland feature doodles and anecdotes in the margins Words on the Wave: Ireland and St. Gallen in Early Medieval Europe, a landmark exhibition on early ...

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 ...

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 ...

The book in question is a copy of the Institutiones Grammaticae of Priscian, well known to Irish scholars in the early Middle Ages. Copies of letters from St Columbanus to the pope make for a ...

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.

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 ...

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 ...

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), ...

The Black Death was caused by the same bacteria that caused the Plague of Justinian, the first plague pandemic that had broken out in the 6th Century. The third plague pandemic began in China in ...