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Historian Bettany Hughes rediscovers a forgotten empire and those who ran it.

Historian Bettany Hughes rediscovers a forgotten empire and those who ran it. From October 2008.

Historian Bettany Hughes begins a series that uses the latest archaeological evidence to learn more about the empire of Byzantium and the people who ruled it. 

Bettany learns how treasures found in the empire's capital, modern-day Istanbul, reveal much about the life and importance of a civilisation that, whilst being devoutly Christian and the inheritors of the Romans, was also exotic and eastern.

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Bettany Hughes uses the latest archaeological evidence to learn about the Byzantine empire

Historian Bettany Hughes presents a series that uses the latest archaeological evidence to learn more about the empire of Byzantium and the people who ruled it

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