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A vast 1,700 year old Roman settlement has been discovered off the coast of Tunisia after several years of archaeological exploration in search of the ancient city of Neapolis. Continue reading “Underwater ruins of lost Roman city discovered in Tunisia”
The beacon system had been a series of fire-signals that warned Constantinople of an Arab invasion into Asia Minor through the Taurus mountain range. Continue reading “Primitive tele-communications in the Eastern Roman Empire – a quick view”
Basil II, called “Bulgar-Slayer” (Bulgaroktonos), reigned from 976–1025 as the greatest of the Macedonian emperors. Continue reading “Basil II ‘The Bulgar-slayer’; One of the greatest Roman Emperors – a quick view”
Avars were a Turkic people from the Asia steppe who settled in the plain of Hungary in 568, wresting away from Byzantium much of the Balkan Peninsula. Continue reading “The Avars – a quick view”
Here we have selected some very representative samples of Byzantine Ecclesiastical Music as it is chanted among the Monks of Mount Athos. Enjoy! Continue reading “Holy Mountain (Mount Athos): Chants from the living Byzantium”
The ancient kingdom of Axum (also called Abyssina) that stretched westward to the valley of the Nile and southward to the Somali coast, in what is today northern Ethiopia. Continue reading “Axum (or Aksum), the greatest power in Africa, after the Roman Empire – a quick view”
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