Old heaps prove that Byzantine Empire also suffered from climate change

Science New research on the demise of the Eastern Roman Empire, the question arises whether the former muslims really the cause of the decline. Probably played the whims of nature on a larger role. This is evident from ancient Roman garbage dumps.

The old Eastern Roman Empire – also known as the Byzantine Empire called – stretched across a large part of the eastern Mediterranean. The mid-seventh century decreased the empire to a smaller area in the former West Anatolia and Greece. That is according to the history books still due to the rise of islam.

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But a new Israeli study, in which age-old waste heaps have been studied, suggests that a klimaatomslag (and not the earlier muslims) on the basis of the decay lag. the

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The Israeli researchers focused on four dumpplaatsen around the ancient city of Elusa, in present Israel. Cities of the Classical Antiquity used such landfill for all their garbage to dump, compare it with a modern container park.

Why waste a good study object were to fall of the Empire to study? A shrunk size of a dump means normally that the population also has shrunk.

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