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On the outskirts of modern Istanbul, a line of ancient walls lies crumbling into the earth.In this episode, we look at one of history’s most incredible stories of survival - the thousand-year epic of the Byzantine Empire. Find out how this civilization suffered the loss of its Western half, and continued the unbroken legacy of Rome right through the middle ages.
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In this way, more than 16,000 workers were gathered to repair the walls of Constantinople. We can imagine the frenzy of activity as these masses of sports fans climbed the scaffolding with stones, bricks, and mortar, singing their team songs and jeering at the other teams as together they rebuilt their fallen walls.
“like most Istanbul Turks I had little interest in Byzantium as a child I associated the word with spooky bearded black robe Greek Orthodox priests with the aqueducts that still ran through the city”
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