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.
Report Abuse. 1  After The Roman Empire. 2  The last eight emperors of the Western Roman Empire, after 455 CE, were either Germanic or appointed by Germans. 3  The Roman empire was not only rome; it had been divided in two parts:eastern, known also as byzantinian empire, and western with capital Rome. The western empire ends (it' s a conventional date) in 476 a. D. The Roman empire in the end was overrun by millions of barbarians from the north and east of Europe.