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Built by the Eastern Roman Emperor Justinian I between 532 and 537 A.D., its circular dome covers what was for a thousand years the largest indoor space in the world. It remains architecturally ...

Five gold Byzantine coins discovered in the ruins of a house in northern Bulgaria are leaving archeologists with more ...

The team said that archaeological evidence found at the tomb links the site to alterations done during the time of Roman Emperor Justinian I. “These excavations revealed a marble floor dating ...

Archaeologists in Bulgaria have unearthed five gold coins dating to the time of the emperor Justinian the Great (ruled from A.D. 527 to 565). Although it is not unusual to discover coins during ...

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 ...

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There is always that nervous excitement about picking up a debut author and that’s exactly how I felt with The Emperor and the Endless Palace by Justinian Hung. Even so, there was something about this ...

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.

Starting with Hammurabi's Code, this volume also analyzes the law of the pharaohs and the codes of the ancient rabbis and of the Roman Emperor Justinian. Focusing on the key concepts of justice equity ...