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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Your Artstor image groups were copied to Workspace. The Artstor website will be retired on Aug 1st. Open: The Metropolitan Museum of Art Gold Solidus of Justinian I (527-65) [99... Gold Solidus of ...

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 ...

We can’t be sure how they met, but most historians agree that they met at the Hippodrome (a sporting and social hub – the Byzantine Empire ... with Theodora. Under Justinian’s reign ...