Nikos Tsivikis

Back to Earth! So, Musk's "America Party" draws inspiration from Epaminondas & the Battle of Leuctra. Meanwhile, we're literally excavating the legacy of that era at #Messene! ✨ Our archaeological team revealing the great city Epaminondas founded.

Living the Dr. Strangelove times! The absurdity of bombing randomly explained. A masterpiece by Stanley Kubrick, brought to life by Peter Sellers.

Remembering historian Marc Bloch, a great medievalist, veteran of both World Wars and hero of the French Resistance, executed by the Germans on this day in 1944.

El sueño de la razon produce monstruos (The Sleep of Reason Produces Monsters / Ο ύπνος της λογικής δημιουργεί τέρατα). Francisco Goya, 1799

From Crucible Steel to the Battlefield: Investigating a Unique Early Medieval Arrowhead from Anatolia - Metallography, Microstructure, and Analysis An arrowhead that was recovered during the excavations of the lower city church of Byzantine Stronghold Amorium in central Anatolia has been subjected to archaeometric analysis. Coins discovered in th...

Ever wonderd how crucible steel arrows were used in the Byzantine-Arab wars? Here is new research from Amorium: Güder, Ü. et al. From Crucible Steel to the Battlefield: Investigating a Unique Early Medieval Arrowhead from Anatolia. Metallogr. Microstruct. Anal. (2025). doi.org/10.1007/s136...

Early medievalists and Calvino's "Invisible Cities" a never-ending postmodern embrace.
Now for Spain and North Africa "¿Ciudades invisibles? Paisajes urbanos de la Antigüedad tardía (siglos III-VIII)"
www.casadevelazquez.org/es/publicaci...

Maybe share it with some Islamic art and archaeology people @stephenniem.bsky.social

Also, if anyone knows any comparanda would be nice to know.

Islamic objects in Byzantine lands. A bronze disk weight found in #Amorium. Reflecting on material culture from Amorium, a city sacked in 838 CE by the Abbasid Caliph Al-Mutassim. Ideas after a great conference on Early Medieval Byzantine #Anatolia, the frontier of Arab-Byzantine confrontation.

Amorium is on the move! Bringing our latest insights from #Byzantine Central Asia Minor to Spain! 🇪🇸✈️
Next week at the "Suburban Landscapes, Material Contexts, and Productivity: The Mediterranean in the postclassical period (4th-8th c.)" conference organised by the University of Alcalá and @csic.es

For online attendance here: www.byzanz-mainz.de/aktuelles/de...

Off to Mainz and @leizarchaeology.bsky.social for an exciting conference on Byzantine Early Medieval #Anatolia 600-900 CE presenting a paper entitled: "Towards an Archaeology of Crisis: #Amorium and the Anatolian Plateau between the 7th and 9th Century"

Reading this great piece of work! Congrats to @historyastheory.bsky.social and highly recommended reading for all historians around, byzantinists or not.

Wine-making in 8th/9th century Byzantine Amorium as conceived by Gemini AI.

Lanthimos’ ‘Bugonia’ abandons plans to film at the Acropolis | eKathimerini.com The production team behind maverick Greek director Yorgos Lanthimos’ upcoming sci-fi comedy “Bugonia” has officially abandoned efforts to film at the Athens Acropolis or any nearby archaeological site...

Greece's Central Archaeological Council rejected a request by director Yorgos Lanthimos’ production team to film scenes of his upcoming movie at the Acropolis hill, claiming they "are incompatible with the symbolism and values represented by the Acropolis." www.ekathimerini.com/culture/1266...

Jerusalem

Bethlehem

Early Christian views of the city. Bethlehem and Jerusalem in the mosaics of Santa Maria Maggiore in Rome. Both Roman and Byzantine...

Si fueris Romae... (When in Rome...) #Messene is travelling to Rome this Friday 4.4.25 as I will be presenting new evidence on the Early Christian & #Byzantine archaeology of Messene at the Pontificio Istituto di Archeologia Cristiana. All Roman friends are welcome to join!

Want to see some 8th-9th c. #Byzantine sarcophagi from Asia Minor connected with Iconoclasm (probably)... Don't miss the online conference 'Funerary Archaeology of Byzantine Constantinople', 16-17.01

I’ve started putting together a starter pack for Byzantine Studies! Drop me a message if I missed you, and let’s start a conversation! 🌻

Prittlewell, Essex

Eleutherna, Crete

Amorium, Phrygia

Continuing on Anglo-Saxons who served in the #Byzantine Army from the article @helengittos.bsky.social in EHR, stuck on the imported to England Byz bronze flagons, like the one from Prittlewell, set against Byz finds from our projects like: Eleutherna (Crete) or Amorium (Asia Minor) (ours are 8th c)

Sutton Hoo and Syria: The Anglo-Saxons Who Served in the Byzantine Army?* Abstract:. The Sutton Hoo ship burial is one of the most famous examples of a group of lavishly furnished graves of the late sixth and early seventh centur

Excited to read the new study by @helengittos.bsky.social on Anglo-Saxons who served in the #Byzantine Army. Not to be missed! Also in OA academic.oup.com/ehr/advance-...

Glad it was of help!

Here is my take on the fine book by Fotini Kondyli on 'Rural Communities in Late #Byzantium. Resilience and Vulnerability in the Northern #Aegean' from the latest European Journal of Archaeology issue.

@archaeologyeaa.bsky.social
@cambridgeuparchaeo.bsky.social

Karagkiozis shadow puppet theater (καραγκιόζης/ karagöz) remains for me, even in my late 40s, one of the funniest shows.

Our excavation at #Amorium continues even in the difficult Anatolian winter. A Beylik or Early Ottoman (13th-15th c.) era bath is being currently unearthed with characteristic hypocausts even in this late date.
www.aa.com.tr/tr/kultur/am...

Cartoon-style infographic illustrating the importance of archaeological find contexts and emphasising that undocumented unsystematic excavations would destroy this context and lose important information telling archaeologists much more about the past than retrieved objects alone.

Why #ContextMatters (not only, but particularly) in #archaeology 🏺:

An archaeological artifact without its documented find context is … like an image ripped from a book (and the rest of the pages torn into shreds): something nice to look at, but missing the actual story about it.

@bradhostetler.bsky.social @jordantpickett.bsky.social @bunyaminanderson.bsky.social @ckeane.bsky.social ?

So for #epigraphyTuesday I'll pose my first bluesky academic question... Does anybody know any work of reference on Epigraphy and Inscriptions on Late #Roman/ Early #Christian/ #Byzantine sarcophagi? I'm working on the relation between text and chest/lid and it's difficult to find anything focused.

The Chora Monastery of Constantinople Cambridge Core - European Studies - The Chora Monastery of Constantinople

New contribution to the Elements in the History of Constantinople by Cambridge University Press:

The Chora Monastery of Constantinople by Emmanuel S. Moutafov

Free download until January 2!
www.cambridge.org/core/element...

Some of the best mosque buildings in Istanbul, especially the one at the back.