The Human Cost
600,000
disputed broad estimate
Late and incompatible narrative traditions make a catalogue-wide death total impossible to verify. This broad allocation is retained for visualization, not as a consensus count.
Each dot below represents 1,000 human lives. Scroll to watch the scale unfold.
Working allocation: 400,000 soldiers killed in combat, from wounds, or from disease. Each = 1,000 lives.
200,000 civilians killed — from violence, famine, disease, and displacement. Wars are not fought only by soldiers.
incl. 5,000 civilians
incl. 2,000 civilians
incl. 5,000 civilians
How Islamic Conquests's dead compare to other conflicts and events.
40,000 dead
Yarmouk permanently removed Syria from Roman control, but its army and loss totals derive from incompatible later traditions.
80,000 dead
The 717–718 expedition suffered catastrophic losses, but 80,000 is a source-dependent reconstruction rather than a roll of the dead.
400,000 dead
The conquest-wide military total is a disputed visualization estimate spanning many regions and generations.