People from all over the world are in the tiny town of Lotus in El Dorado County looking for something that's out of this world, but leave it to a stay-at-home mom walking her dog to find a precious meteorite.
The origins of the great civilization known as the Byzantine Empire can be traced to 330 A.D., when the Roman emperor Constantine I dedicated a ânew Romeâ on the site of the ancient Greek colony of Byzantium.
Map of the Roman Empire. around 400 CE. Emperor Justinian. When the Holy Roman empire collapsed and the western half was conquered by barbarian tribes (pictured in orange on the map above), the Holy Roman Empire continued in the east. This was called Byzantium (pictured in green above). There were many emperors in Byzantium.