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.
The Byzantine Empire or Eastern Roman Empire, known to its inhabitants as the Roman Empire, the Empire of the Romans (Greek: Î²Î±ÏÎ¹Î»ÎµÎ¯Î± Ïá¿¶Î½ á¿¥ÏÎ¼Î±Î¯ÏÎ½, BasileÃ­a tÃ´n RhÅmaÃ­Ån) and also as Romania (á¿¥ÏÎ¼Î±Î½Î¯Î±, RhÅmanÃ­a), was the continuation of the Roman Empire during the Middle Ages, centered on its capital of Constantinople, and ruled by Emperors in direct ...