The Imago Mundi, the oldest known world map, offers a rare glimpse into the way ancient Babylonians viewed their world.

Traditionally, it has been believed that natural factors, such as the Late Antique Little Ice Age (LALIA) and the Plague of Justinian, played a crucial role in weakening the empire during the 6th ...

Macedonia, a landlocked Balkan country squeezed between Bulgaria, Serbia, Greece, Albania and Kosovo, is one of Europe ... century Roman ruins of the city then known as Skupi. From atop the grand ...

Since that empire dissolved around AD 100, there was a 300-year gap before the appearance of the Huns in Europe. To address this issue, a team of researchers analyzed the DNA of 370 individuals who ...

the Madaba Map is both a masterpiece of Byzantine design and a working map of Jerusalem and the sixth-century Middle East. A detail of the Madaba Map reveals how its makers imagined the world from ...