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.
It can be seen on statues and paintings of Roman men from the earliest founding of the city of Rome in 753 b.c.e. until the collapse of the Roman Empire in 476 c.e. During the years of the Roman Republic (509â27 b.c.e.), Romans were often called gens togata, or people of the toga.