Anglo-Saxons joined the Byzantine Varangian Guard after the 1066 Norman Conquest, shaping the Byzantine Empire.

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In Part 3 of the Arab-Byzantine Wars series, we explore how Muslim forces led by Amr ibn al-As conquered Egypt from the Byzantine Empire in a remarkably swift and strategic campaign. This video breaks ...

( NewsNation) — Archaeologists have discovered an ancient Christian settlement in Jordan that dates back to the mid-sixth ...

The word "plague" is often used to refer to any major disease epidemic or pandemic, or even to other undesirable events, such ...

Septicemic plague occurs if bubonic plague is left untreated, or it can occur directly if the disease enters the bloodstream.

Animals such as rats can carry the bacterium that causes plague (Alamy/PA) ...

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Cynthia Erivo, the award-winning actor and star of Wicked, will play Jesus Christ at the Hollywood Bowl in Los Angeles ...

The destruction and safeguarding of Gaza’s cultural heritage are the themes of a new exhibition that opened in Paris earlier ...

Most of my readers are quite familiar with the great rulers of the Renaissance: Henry VIII and his consecutive marital ...

Using mostly the local Sabean language (and in rare cases Hebrew), this god is alternatively described as Rachmanan – the Merciful – the “Lord of the Heavens and Earth,” the “God of Israel” and “Lord ...