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 ...

The Byzantine Empire maintained an intriguing relationship with ancient China, thus sending ambassadors there.

The textbooks say the Byzantine Empire was a theocratic autocracy uniting church and state under an all-powerful ... was the Nika revolt of 532, when Justinian the Great, at the urging of Empress ...

The church flaunts a monumental Byzantine style and stresses the ... with three apses in the first half of the 6th century under Emperor Justinian I. “The architecture shows striking parallels ...