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 ...

Constructed under the orders of the Roman emperor Justinian I in 537 CE, Hagia Sophia, or a “Church of Divine Wisdom”, served as the world’s largest Christian cathedral for nearly a thousand ...

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 ...

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.

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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 ...

Justinian's triumphal column was the tallest free-standing column of the pre-modern world and was crowned with arguably the largest metal equestrian sculpture created anywhere in the world before 1699 ...

The Justinian Plague, which struck in 541 AD, may have killed as many as 25 million. Now, scientists say the outbreak probably originated in Asia, not Egypt as contemporary and more recent ...

The largest of nine islands in the archipelago known as the Princes' Islands (the name dates to A.D. 569, when Emperor Justinian II built a royal palace here), Büyükada sits in the Sea of Marmara.