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Nikos Tsivikis @ntsivikis.bsky.social · Jul 7

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.

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Nikos Tsivikis @ntsivikis.bsky.social · Jun 22

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

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Christos G. Makrypoulias @christos-mak.bsky.social · Jun 16

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.

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Nikos Tsivikis @ntsivikis.bsky.social · Jun 13

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

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Nikos Tsivikis @ntsivikis.bsky.social · Jun 12

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...

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...

doi.org

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Nikos Tsivikis @ntsivikis.bsky.social · Jun 5

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...

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Nikos Tsivikis @ntsivikis.bsky.social · Jun 2

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

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Nikos Tsivikis @ntsivikis.bsky.social · Jun 2

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

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Nikos Tsivikis @ntsivikis.bsky.social · Jun 2

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.

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Nikos Tsivikis @ntsivikis.bsky.social · May 28

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

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Nikos Tsivikis @ntsivikis.bsky.social · May 26

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

Byzantine Anatolia from Late Antiquity to the Middle Ages, 600-800: Historical and Archaeological Approaches to a Crisis Era

www.byzanz-mainz.de

Nikos Tsivikis @ntsivikis.bsky.social · May 26

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"

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Nikos Tsivikis @ntsivikis.bsky.social · May 10

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

Nik Matheou 🇵🇸 @historyastheory.bsky.social · Feb 10

Very excited that this article is finally out! I hope it'll be of interest to anyone who: 1) is interested in the history of #nationhood & #nationalism; 2) is into the debate over Romanness in "#Byzantium"; & 3) wants to develop critical #Marxist frameworks before & after capitalism. A short 🧵/1

Past and Present @pastpresentsoc.bsky.social · Feb 10

New on advance access: "Nationcraft and the Origins of Territory: Experiencing Romanía in the Medieval Empire of New Rome"

by Nicholas S M Matheou (@edinburgh-uni.bsky.social)

#OpenAccess

doi.org/10.1093/past...

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Nikos Tsivikis @ntsivikis.bsky.social · May 8

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

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Daphne Papadopoulou @daphnenews.bsky.social · Apr 4

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...

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...

www.ekathimerini.com

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Nikos Tsivikis @ntsivikis.bsky.social · Apr 4

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

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Nikos Tsivikis @ntsivikis.bsky.social · Apr 2

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!

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Nikos Tsivikis @ntsivikis.bsky.social · Jan 15

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

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Martina Filosa @sealygirl.bsky.social · Dec 5

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! 🌻

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Nikos Tsivikis @ntsivikis.bsky.social · Jan 5

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)

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Nikos Tsivikis @ntsivikis.bsky.social · Jan 5

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-...

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

academic.oup.com

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Nikos Tsivikis @ntsivikis.bsky.social · Dec 21

Glad it was of help!

Nikos Tsivikis @ntsivikis.bsky.social · Dec 21

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

Fotini Kondyli. Rural Communities in Late Byzantium. Resilience and Vulnerability in the Northern Aegean (New York, NY: Cambridge University Press, 2022, 290 pp., 80 illustr., 66 in colour, 20 maps, h...

www.cambridge.org

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Nikos Tsivikis @ntsivikis.bsky.social · Dec 20

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

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Nikos Tsivikis @ntsivikis.bsky.social · Dec 17

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...

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