Blu-ray and DVD are your best options. This article provides excellent info: http://www.thexlab.com/faqs/opticalmedialongevity.html. http://www.cd-info.com/archiving/longevity/index.html. You should make more than one copy and store the media vertically.
The Siege of Damascus (634) lasted from 21 August to 19 September 634 AD b[âº] before the city fell to the Rashidun Caliphate. Damascus was the first major city of the Byzantine (Roman) empire to fall in the Muslim conquest of Syria.
Constantinople is in modern day Istanbul in Turkey. Story to follow. Not just going to copy out of Wikipedia, like some people... Constantinople was the shift of the imperial power of Rome from west to east. While it is commonly said that Rome fell, this was never true. Instead the city of Rome just got poorer and poorer as the power and wealth shifted to the east.