The physicians say that the 35-year-old patient is in “perfect health” after the procedure, and they are already planning on performing additional surgeries with the 3D-printed ‘bones,’ including three ribs along with a sternum.
The Edict implicitly granted Christianity the status of religio licita, a worship that was recognized and accepted by the Roman Empire.
In 681 C.E., the First Bulgarian Empire was born on the banks of the Danube, after Bulgar leader Asparuh defeated Byzantine forces and won formal recognition from Constantinople. The new state fused steppe warriors with South Slavic farming communities, and within two centuries its scholars in Preslav shaped the Early Cyrillic alphabet — a script now read by more than 250 million people.
The Huns reshaped Eurasia in 434 C.E., when Attila and his brother Bleda took joint rule of a confederation that had crossed the Volga only six decades earlier. From the Danube, they extracted tribute from Rome and pushed Goths, Vandals, and Alans westward. Their pressure helped clear the ground on which medieval Europe would later rise.
Around 4500 B.C.E., a community on the Bulgarian coast buried their dead with more gold than had ever been found from that era anywhere in the world. Rediscovered by accident in 1972, the Varna Necropolis has yielded roughly 3,000 gold artifacts across 294 graves — offering some of the earliest direct evidence of organized social hierarchy in human prehistory.
