Eastern Roman Emperor Justinian I promulgated an entirely new Roman code of law in November 534 A.D. His Empire, however, was ...

Introducing Justinian I and Theodora, the Jay-Z and Beyonce of the Byzantine Empire (but with chariots). Listen to the Radio 4 You're Dead To Me podcast on BBC Sounds More films from BBC Reel ...

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 ...

A gold coin unearthed at the site of a medieval fortress in Bulgaria indicates the wealth of the people who lived there ...

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 ...

These words, which Dante Alighieri places in the mouth of Justinian I, emperor of the Eastern Roman ... legitimacy as… How the Republic of Venice was Born within the Byzantine Empire as a Defense ...

The verdict of history on Justinian is mixed. Was he a brilliant strategist, a wise lawgiver, and a gifted politician who laid the foundations for the Byzantine empire’s remarkable millennium of ...

Africa and countless other provinces, restored to Roman jurisdiction and brought back within our empire after so long an interval ... to enact and collect that all our peoples are ruled. – Justinian, ...

Many factors contributed to the survival of the Byzantine Empire. It had a good infrastructure system that funneled agricultural supplies, and it had a good infrastructure system that funneled these ...

Archaeologists in Bulgaria have discovered a medieval house that contained even older gold coins, which date to the reign of the Byzantine emperor Justinian the Great. Archaeologists in Bulgaria ...

The coins were minted during the reign of Justinian the Great, whose rule saw the Byzantine Empire reach its greatest geographical extent in the mid-sixth century, after the Western Roman Empire ...