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.
In 476 CE, the Western Kingdom of Rome was conquered by the barbarian hordes (as they were fondly called by the Romans). The Eastern Kingdom (called Byzantine) survived the onslaught and kept possession of her lands, including Judea. The barbarians settled down in the Western Empire and became Christians. As it had been before Rome fell, the Byzantine political structure was influenced very strongly by the Church, and the Jews of Judea continued to suffer.