Images Bauda Maramaya Ruwheia Another view of Ruwheia Sergilla

The 6th century witnessed a series of Sassanid-Persian invasions. The major devastation of Antioch, for instance, came with the second wave of attacks by the Persians in 540, when the entire city including its suburbs was burnt down, as reported by Procopius, a prominent Byzantine scholar (500 - c. 565). The Dead Cities certainly did not remain unscathed by these invasions and their dramatic consequences.