Mohammed and Charlemagne
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Mohammed and Charlemagne is an academic book by the Belgian historian Henri Pirenne which was first published posthumously in 1937. It set out an alternative argument about the end of Roman influence
7th-century gold dinar of Abd al-Malik ibn Marwan. By the time of its production, the minting of gold coins had effectively stopped north of the Alps.
Late antiquity
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Late antiquity is a period of Eurasian, Mediterranean, and Near Eastern history conventionally placed between the later third century and the eighth century CE. It describes the transformation of the
The Barberini ivory, a late Leonid/Justinian Byzantine ivory leaf from an imperial diptych, from an imperial workshop in Constantinople in the first half of the 6th century (Louvre)
1915 illustration of Alaric I entering Athens
1824 drawing of the Taq Kasra
View west along the Harbour Street towards the Library of Celsus in Ephesus, present-day Turkey. The pillars on the left side of the street were part of the colonnaded walkway apparent in cities of late antique Asia Minor.