The Stage 32 Videos: Justinian

At only 2:19, here is the immediate purpose for mine and partner Pam Theodotou's decision to present this most grandiose 50-year period of birth for the long-lived Eastern Roman Empire, better known as the lost Byzantine Civilization based in Constantinople, (modern-day Istanbul) This Greco-Roman Empire ruled the Mediterranean for more than a thousand years beyond the fall of Western Rome and the European retreat back to the Dark Ages.