Scientists Assert That This Was The Cause Of The Byzantine Empire’s Demise – And That People Today Should Be Alarmed

There’s always the desire to compare today’s living to bygone civilizations. And in some ways, this might be a good thing. After all, knowing how great civilizations fell means we can resist making the same mistakes – even if it requires digging through garbage dump debris.

Yes, you read that correctly, as experts dug through trash in the Byzantine settlement of Elusa and came to some startling discoveries. Elusa was a city in what is now Israel that had a well-organized rubbish disposal system in ancient times. This waste-removal procedure, however, seems to come to a halt about the 6th century. And the reason for this could reveal a lot about Elusa, as well as the Eastern Roman Empire itself.