A newly confirmed mass grave in ancient Jordan offers chilling insight into one of history’s first pandemics. Hundreds of ...

The first confirmed mass grave of bubonic plague victims has been discovered in Jerash, Jordan. An international team of ...

Evidence from Jerash shows the Justinian plague reshaped communities, exposing hidden migration patterns and the human impact of pandemic crises. “A plague is upon us” was likely a familiar expression ...

What many previous emperors before had failed to do, "we have decided now to grant to the world, with the help of Almighty God," announced the ambitious Justinian I with his wife, Theodora. Not ...

Born into a peasant family in 482, Justinian was, in the words of John Julius Norwich, the ”greatest of all the Byzantine Emperors…after Constantine himself”. Reigning from 527 to 565, Justinian ...

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