Nadi FC has welcomed Canadian-based striker Marara Patrick Gaucho into their lineup, a move expected to boost the Jetsetters’ ...

Rocks on Iceland beaches confirm the Late Antique Little Ice Age, caused by volcanic eruptions, precipitated the fall of the Roman Empire.

"And the locusts went up over all the land of Egypt, and rested in all the coasts of Egypt; very grievous were they; before them there were no such locusts as they, neither after them shall be ...

Researchers have proposed a different possible cause for the Biblical locusts. In The Plagues of Egypt: Archaeology, History and Science Look at the Bible, microbiologist Siro Trevisanato proposed ...

Known as the Justinian Pandemic or the Plague of Justinian, this disease, caused by Yersinia pestis, spread from Roman Egypt to other regions over the following two centuries. The combination of ...

Between 541 and 544, there was also the first and most severe documented occurrence of the Justinianic plague in the eastern Roman Empire (also referred to as the Byzantine Empire), in which ...

An over 3,000-year-old Egyptian mummy who may have died of the bubonic plague marks the first case of the disease outside the Eurasian continent.

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

The authors analyze shipwreck data and conclude that, far from a trade decline in the 6th century, the shipwrecks suggest continuity or even a boom in eastern Mediterranean trade routes up until the ...

The Norton Simon in Pasadena may get overshadowed by LACMA, MOCA and the Broad, but its 12,000-piece collection is one of SoCal's best. Our critic offers a shortlist of don't-miss works.

The 10 Plagues of Egypt detailed in the book of Exodus in the Old Testament—estimated to have been written in the 13th century BCE—still hold a terrible fascination. Likewise, the Plague of Thebes, ...