Greetings all, 

23 years ago - almost to the hour - Byzantium Novum was first conceived on February 22nd, 2003. 

It even fell on a Saturday. 

I was watching the "Byzantium" documentary by John Romer, and was so inspired I decided that the Byzantine Empire really needed to be restored in the modern world. I reserved the website URL and posted a first Main List post as a place holder.  That first message is still up on our Main Forum. 

Here we still are!  Pretty amazing...  my humble thanks to everyone for being here!

-Marcus Cassius Julianus