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 ...

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 ...

Unbeknownst to a group of researchers digging near a small Italian town, a Christian basilica once stood in a Roman military colony. Thousands of years later, it was unearthed. The major discovery ...