Daily Medieval

Constans continued to do things that were uncommon for other Byzantine Emperors. He was the first Byzantine Emperor to visit Rome (in 663) s...

Dimashq. دمشق. Dimishe'. al-Sh ām. The City of Jasmine. "Oldest continuously inhabited city in the world." Damascus. I...

15th century portrayal of Ptolemy's map Prior to the Age of Exploration, human beings in the western hemisphere did not attempt to t...

Aleppo in Syria ranks with some of the oldest continuously inhabited cities in the world. There is evidence that people lived in that loca...

Silk was not a medieval invention. According to Chinese tradition , Empress Si-Ling-Chi in 2460 BCE watched silkworms spinning cocoons; she ...