The Justinian Plague, which struck in 541 AD, may have killed as many as 25 million. Now, scientists say the outbreak probably originated in Asia, not Egypt as contemporary and more recent ...

A new study suggests the Byzantine Empire’s decline wasn’t caused by the Justinian Plague, but may have even experienced a population boom.

Then, after the fall of the Western Roman Empire in 476, one of the coldest periods in the past 2000 years heralded a wave of pandemics starting with the Plague of Justinian in the 540s.

A recent study published in the journal Klio by researchers Haggai Olshanetsky and Lev Cosijns analyzes the true causes of ...

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archaeology and epidemiology of the so-called Plague of Justinian, the first historically documented pandemic of bubonic plague in history. His most recent publication is Indispensable Immigrants: The ...

Justinian’s last 25 years, 540-565, were dominated by issues all too familiar to us today: severe ideological stress and strain; climate change; plague; and, military setbacks. He became ...

A clip from our video on Belisarius & The Wars of Justinian. #epichistorytv #rome #history #shorts ...