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Following the death of the Prophet Mohammed in 632, Arab armies, united under Islam, poured out of their homeland, and soon took Egypt, Syria, and Palestine from the Byzantines; Constantinople was besieged from 674 to 678, but survived because of its defences.
A remnant of the Byzantine Empire survived in Nicaea (now Iznik), and recaptured Constantinople in 1261, but the city had been shattered and its great monuments were stripped of gold, silver, and precious works of art.
San Giovanni in Oleo stands near the spot, just inside the ancient Porta Latina, where St. John the Evangelist is said to have survived immersion in boiling oil.
Much of the town was badly damaged in the Battle for Crete during WWII, though the heart of the old town survived.
The fact that the rat mitochondrial ATPase 6 gene was isolated from HEL cells inoculated with homogenate of P. carinii -infected rat lungs suggests that rat cells were present in the inoculum and survived in culture.