Caire was involved in additional ventures in San Francisco, including a French hospital and a French bank. Ten stockholders in the latter got together in February 1869, to buy Santa Cruz Island and ...
What many previous emperors before had failed to do, "we have decided now to grant to the world, with the help of Almighty God," announced the ambitious Justinian I with his wife, Theodora. Not ...
In 554 AD, with the Ostrogoths defeated, the Eastern Roman general Narses believed the Italian campaign was complete. But a ...
"A plague is upon us'' may have been a common phrase in ancient Jordan, where countless people perished from a mysterious ...
The Tentative Lists of States Parties are published by the World Heritage Centre at its website and/or in working documents in order to ensure transparency, access to information and to facilitate ...
Born into a peasant family in 482, Justinian was, in the words of John Julius Norwich, the ”greatest of all the Byzantine Emperors…after Constantine himself”. Reigning from 527 to 565, Justinian ...
IIIF provides researchers rich metadata and media viewing options for comparison of works across cultural heritage collections. Visit the IIIF page to learn more. On February 1, 1935, Vatican City ...