Silk production and trade became an important part of the Byzantine economy from the 6th century on. The 4th and early 6th centuries were a time of active long distance trade. During the year 306 CE, ...

Ḥorbat ‘Ofrat in the Late Hellenistic, Roman and Byzantine Periods This is the metadata section ... The Fauna from Ḥorbat ‘Ofrat. Olami Y. and Gal Z. 2003. Map of Shefar‘am (24) (Archaeological Survey ...

The Byzantine Empire was a continuation of the Roman Empire and even of the Roman Republic. Its political ideology was fundamentally secular and grounded in the ancient Roman republican belief ...

Ancient shipwrecks have given scientists fresh insights into why the final remnants of the Roman Empire collapsed - nearly 1,000 years after the fall of Rome. In 330AD, Emperor Constantine split ...