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

Wine making in #Byzantine Amorium in the 9th century, an AI generated video, factually wrong in many ways but really nice to look at! Made with Google Gemini App

Amorium on the move! Bringing our latest insights from Central Asia Minor to Spain! 🇪🇸✈️ Next week, at "Suburban Landscapes, Material Contexts, and Productivity: The Mediterranean in the postclassical period (4th-8th c)" conference, organized by the Universidad Alcalá and CSIC .

Proud to see our Greek Epigraphy students’ work with Professor Robert Pitt featured on Attic Inscriptions! Working hands-on with inscribed funerary monuments in the Kerameikos archaeological site, they’re contributing real scholarship to the discipline.

Medievalists and Calvino's "Invisible Cities" a never-ending postmodern embrace. New book on Late Antique Spain and North Africa "¿Ciudades invisibles? Paisajes urbanos de la Antigüedad tardía (siglos III-VIII)" by S. Panzram/L. Brassous Casa de Velázquez casadevelazquez.org/es/publicacion…

Wondered how crucible steel arrows where used during #Byzantine-Arab wars? 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/s13632…

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

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.

Ya tenemos aquí el PRIMER MÁSTER de ESTUDIOS BIZANTINOS ofertado en España, y seguramente en todo el ámbito de lengua castellana. La Sociedad Española de Bizantinística junto con la Complutense y la Universidad Alcalá se han unido para ofertar algo único. 🧶1/3

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Dr. Strangelove time! Always enjoying a classic.

Contending history! So, Elon Musk 's "America Party" draws inspo 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.

Just discovered that part of the work of my beloved mentor, John C. Alexander, has been uploaded to Academia.edu! Cannot recommend them enough. aristoteleio.academia.edu/%CE%93%CE%B9%C…

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Today is the day we celebrate what we enjoy doing all the rest of the year. International Archaeology Day also for us in Messene in the SW Peloponnese and Amorium in Central Asia Minor and our #Byzantine archaeology explorations. #internationalarchaeologyday

An unexpected online discovery: a match box from Spain from the 1960s or 1970s portraying a #Byzantine Dromon, as part of a series on historical ships... #Fosforos #España