“He was short with a good chest, a good nose, fair-skinned, curly haired, round-faced, handsome with receding hair, a florid complexion, with his hair and beard graying.” This description of emperor ...

Hagia Sophia reinstated as a mosque in 2020 The Hagia Sophia, also known as the Basilica of Divine Wisdom, was built by Emperor Justinian the Great and completed in 537 AD. For the subsequent 900 ...

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 ...

In the 6th century AD, during the reign of Emperor Justinian, the Roman Empire experienced an extraordinary resurgence, reconquering lands - including Italy, North Africa and Rome itself - that ...