A farmer’s unexpected discovery in Slovakia has revealed a stunning 1,000-year-old crown ...

One of only three surviving Byzantine crowns, it depicts a man and two sisters who jointly ruled the empire in the 11th ...

What it tells us about the past: In 1860, a farmer was tilling a field in central Slovakia when he unearthed a spectacular paneled gold Byzantine crown ... as emperor only because he was the spouse of ...

Mosaic of Byzantine Empress Theodora in the Basilica di San Vitale, in Ravenna, Italy Credit: Petar Milosevic/Wikimedia Commons/ CC BY-SA 4.0 In Constantinople, circa 500 AD, a girl was born to a poor ...

When Belisarius and the Eunuch Narses conquered Italy for Justinian in 540, they re-established Ravenna as the Western capital of the Byzantine empire. Justinian and Theodora, his empress, ordered ...

Byzantine Emperor Justinian and Empress Theodora’s origins. Their reign, which began in 527 AD and ended in 565 AD, marked a period of extraordinary changes and reforms in the Byzantine Empire with an ...

Theodora, in Age of Empires Mobile, is an iconic and powerful character. In real life, she is a heroic figure in Byzantine history, who rose from humble beginnings to become Empress alongside her ...

Empress Theodora and her retinue, Byzantine mosaic in the apse of the Basilica of San Vitale (UNESCO World Heritage Site, 1996), Ravenna, Emilia-Romagna, Italy, 6th century.

Belisarius was once again distrusted by Justinian and began contemplating retirement, focusing on annulling his daughter’s marriage to Anastasius, a grandson of Theodora (who wanted to seize the ...

In other words, Theodora could have ended her unwanted pregnancies more easily as empress than as a prostitute. We even find a Byzantine-trained surgeon in Visigothic Spain (a bishop, no less) ...