Emperor Justinian I and Empress Theodora were the 6th Century golden couple of the Byzantine Empire. Think Jay-Z and Beyonce - but with a lot more chariots. Script and narration by Emma Nagouse ...

In the wake of one of history's most devastating epidemics of bubonic plague, the Byzantine emperor Justinian enacts a law meant to hinder and isolate people arriving from plague-infested regions.

Byzantine emperors therefore lived in fear of the ... in the empire’s thousand years was the Nika revolt of 532, when Justinian the Great, at the urging of Empress Theodora, sent soldiers ...

She was the daughter of a bear trainer and made a living as an actress and (very likely) a sex worker before catching the eye of the soon-to-be Emperor Justinian I of the Byzantine Empire.

Researchers from the Austrian Archaeological Institute of the Austrian Academy of Sciences (ÖAW) have discovered an early Christian Basilica in Aquileia, Italy. The church flaunts a monumental ...

The verdict of history on Justinian is mixed. Was he a brilliant strategist, a wise lawgiver, and a gifted politician who laid the foundations for the Byzantine empire’s remarkable millennium of ...

The time span covered is 379 to 565 C.E., from the accession of emperor Theodosius I to the death of emperor Justinian I. In the Introduction ... over 100 articles on various aspects of Roman and ...

Once the largest Christian church for over a thousand years, Hagia Sophia was built under the Byzantine Emperor Justinian I. Over time, it has served as a Greek Orthodox cathedral, a Roman ...

A Roman noble, Cethegus, tries to start a war, setting the Ostrogoths and their Queen, Amalasuntha, against the Byzantine Emperor Justinian; Cethegus wants to swoop in after they have destroyed ...

Joseph Alchermes' main research interests range from the Roman and Early Christian world to the art and architecture of the Byzantine Empire with links ... as art and architecture in the age of the ...