A number of Byzantine coins discovered in China and Japan indicate that there was a trade link between the Byzantine Empire and China.
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Why the Hagia Sophia still divides the world

The Hagia Sophia is one of the most significant buildings in world history, located in Istanbul. It was originally constructed in the 6th century as a Christian cathedral under the Byzantine Empire.
Welcome to part 4 of the Grand Hotseat Campaign. Things are going swell!Turn order (factions with less initial regions go ...
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The symbol of Western Civilization, the Acropolis' Parthenon was converted to a Christian church for almost a millennium, ...
NEW DELHI – A newly released book, ‘Treasures of the Gupta Empire: A Numismatic History of the Golden Age of India,’ offers a deep dive into the coins minted during the reign of the Gupta dynasty from ...
A rediscovered Roman coin hoard in northern Germany offers new clues about trade, risk, and daily life beyond the Roman ...
King for a day? How about emperor for two months? Between A.D. 260 and 274, a succession of generals ruled over the Gallic Empire, a breakaway state from the Roman Empire that included the provinces ...
News-driven FX Trading: How to Trade Events Like the FOMC, CPI, and NFP Traders are paying close attention to the Bitcoin market, and whether or not it can recover to make decisions here. The Coinbase ...
News-driven FX Trading: How to Trade Events Like the FOMC, CPI, and NFP The three crypto related stocks in this analysis all look like they are trying to rally over the longer- term, but the outlier ...
As the teaching of ancient history and classical languages falls off a cliff in our failing educational systems, Americans will rapidly lose the connection to Graeco-Roman antiquity which so deeply ...
May 29, 1453, is one of those landmark historical dates. On that day the fall of Constantinople occurred —and with it that of ...