Nikos Tsivikis
@ntsivikis.bsky.social
Late Antique and Byzantine Archaeology from outer space - Amorium and Messene excavation - Researcher at the National Hellenic Research Foundation
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Nikos Tsivikis
@ntsivikis.bsky.social
· Nov 18
Also I started on of these packs for the few working on #Byzantium and things #Byzantine or Eastern Roman, if you prefer. Say hi to be included, and send proposals for other people you know.
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An unexpected discovery: a match box from Spain from the 1960s or 1970s portraying a #Byzantine Dromon, as part of a series on historical ships...
October 19, 2025 at 9:05 AM
An unexpected discovery: a match box from Spain from the 1960s or 1970s portraying a #Byzantine Dromon, as part of a series on historical ships...
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.
July 7, 2025 at 6:48 PM
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.
June 22, 2025 at 9:18 PM
Living the Dr. Strangelove times! The absurdity of bombing randomly explained. A masterpiece by Stanley Kubrick, brought to life by Peter Sellers.
Reposted by Nikos Tsivikis
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.
June 16, 2025 at 6:19 AM
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
June 13, 2025 at 10:33 AM
El sueño de la razon produce monstruos (The Sleep of Reason Produces Monsters / Ο ύπνος της λογικής δημιουργεί τέρατα). Francisco Goya, 1799
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...
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June 12, 2025 at 12:38 PM
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...
Now for Spain and North Africa "¿Ciudades invisibles? Paisajes urbanos de la Antigüedad tardía (siglos III-VIII)"
www.casadevelazquez.org/es/publicaci...
June 5, 2025 at 10:25 AM
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...
Now for Spain and North Africa "¿Ciudades invisibles? Paisajes urbanos de la Antigüedad tardía (siglos III-VIII)"
www.casadevelazquez.org/es/publicaci...
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.
June 2, 2025 at 7:05 AM
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
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
May 28, 2025 at 3:36 PM
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
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
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"
May 26, 2025 at 5:24 AM
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.
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
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...
by Nicholas S M Matheou (@edinburgh-uni.bsky.social)
#OpenAccess
doi.org/10.1093/past...
May 10, 2025 at 8:12 AM
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.
May 8, 2025 at 8:44 PM
Wine-making in 8th/9th century Byzantine Amorium as conceived by Gemini AI.
Reposted by Nikos Tsivikis
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
April 4, 2025 at 6:09 AM
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...
Early Christian views of the city. Bethlehem and Jerusalem in the mosaics of Santa Maria Maggiore in Rome. Both Roman and Byzantine...
April 4, 2025 at 7:09 AM
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!
April 2, 2025 at 9:24 AM
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
January 15, 2025 at 9:15 PM
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
Reposted by Nikos Tsivikis
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! 🌻
December 5, 2024 at 4:41 PM
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! 🌻
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)
January 5, 2025 at 8:24 PM
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)
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
January 5, 2025 at 11:27 AM
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-...
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.
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@cambridgeuparchaeo.bsky.social
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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...
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...
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December 21, 2024 at 9:40 AM
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
@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.
December 20, 2024 at 2:03 PM
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...
www.aa.com.tr/tr/kultur/am...
December 17, 2024 at 9:42 PM
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...
www.aa.com.tr/tr/kultur/am...
Reposted by Nikos Tsivikis
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.
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.
November 5, 2023 at 12:44 PM
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.
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.
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.
December 9, 2024 at 8:48 PM
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.
Reposted by Nikos Tsivikis
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...
The Chora Monastery of Constantinople by Emmanuel S. Moutafov
Free download until January 2!
www.cambridge.org/core/element...
The Chora Monastery of Constantinople
Cambridge Core - European Studies - The Chora Monastery of Constantinople
www.cambridge.org
December 9, 2024 at 7:17 AM
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...
The Chora Monastery of Constantinople by Emmanuel S. Moutafov
Free download until January 2!
www.cambridge.org/core/element...