Experts note that the city was fortified by Emperor Justinian I with a formidable zigzag ... of a Byzantine Basilica Founded in 181 BC as a Roman military colony, Aquileia was strategically ...

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 ...

Under Justinian’s reign ... unprecedented power and influence in the reigns of no less than three Roman emperors – she was the sister of the emperor Caligula, the wife of Claudius and the ...

The inscription on the front reads "Our Lord Justinian Perpetual Augustus," a reference to the first Roman emperor, whose name was later used to refer to all emperors, while the back reads ...

Within the current borders of Serbia were born 17 Roman emperors, or 18 if you count the Byzantine emperor Justinian. Most of them came from military backgrounds and became emperor as a result of ...

Teodora, a Roman courtesan and former slave girl, marries the Roman emperor Justinian and assumes the throne as Empress of Rome. But the divide between nobility and slave is too great. Teodora ...

From the photographs, it looks as if it has the opulence, style, and taste of a late Roman imperial palace, such as Justinian’s Great Palace ... The Corpus iuris civilis, a codification of laws that ...