Destroyed by a Mamluk sultan in the thirteenth century
In Cosmas’s day, the prosperity of that world was enough to make a businessman’s mouth water. Gaza on the Mediterranean coast was already a...
Mesopotamia is the heart of modern Iraq
Mesopotamia is the heart of modern Iraq. The lands to its east over the Zagros Mountains—the highlands of classical Persia and modern Iran— are...
Gupta empire in India was deteriorating
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Eudocia 1067 part 21
It would be superfluous to praise the empress because of her family, although its wealth and antiquity cannot fail to confer lustre on the...
The Secret History part 84
The State had also always kept a large number of camels, which carried all the baggage when the Roman army marched against the foe....
The Secret History part 83
As a day’s journey for an active man, they decided on eight stages in some places, in others less, but hardly ever less than...
The Secret History part 82
Now some bore their sufferings in silence; but those of the inhabitants of Tarsus who were Blues, trusting in the favor of the Empress,...
The Secret History part 81
Another thing that happened at this time I must also not fail to tell. One Anatolius was foremost in the Senate of Ascalon. His...
The Secret History part 80
29. Other incidents revealing him as a liar and a hypocrite
I will now show what a liar and hypocrite he was. This Liberius, whom...
The Secret History part 79
But since there was a statute of limitations barring action after thirty years, except in mortgages and certain other matters, where the limit was...
