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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;ValiantKnight, post: 5006588, member: 44210&quot;]Actually was Constans II, several decades later:</p><p><br /></p><p>From Wikipedia: “In 663 Constans visited <a href="https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rome" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rome" rel="nofollow">Rome</a> for twelve days—the only emperor to set foot in Rome for two centuries—and was received with great honor by <a href="https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pope_Vitalian" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pope_Vitalian" rel="nofollow">Pope Vitalian</a>(657–672). Although on friendly terms with Vitalian, he stripped buildings, including the <a href="https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pantheon,_Rome" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pantheon,_Rome" rel="nofollow">Pantheon</a>, of their ornaments and bronze to be carried back to Constantinople,...”</p><p><br /></p><p>I read somewhere that a possible reason for this was to help pay for the war against the Arabs being waged at that time.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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