What visiting this UNESCO World Heritage Site tells us about faith, politics, and power, Destinations News - Times Now ...

The Hagia Sophia is at the centre of Turkey's Byzantine, Ottoman and secular history. How did the sixth-century cathedral ...

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 Byzantine Empire lasted until 1453 ... it dates from the early sixth century when Emperor Justinian ruled the eastern Mediterranean. "The dimness of Hagia Sophia's interior tends to support ...

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 monks then presented the eggs to Byzantine Emperor Justinian I in Constantinople, where he created a thriving silk industry. Silkworms reached Italy through Sicily in the 12th century ...

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 ...