#byzantine — Public Fediverse posts
Live and recent posts from across the Fediverse tagged #byzantine, aggregated by home.social.
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On the road between Çavuşin and Zelve🇹🇷, we stop at Paşabağ, also called "Monks Valley". Here the landscape displays the amazing multi-headed mushroom rock formations, some 15-20m high into which monks carved cells in the #Byzantine period to live a solitary life.
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Kırşehir 🇹🇷 was a Hellenistic settlement known as Mokissos. In the #Byzantine era, the emperor Justinian changed the name to Justinianopolis (oh, hey!). Today it is a city of about 163K. The nearby village of Seyfe is considered the geographical center of the world (sorry, Jerusalem!).
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✏️ Sekbanbaşı Mosque (Former #Byzantine Church of the Archihorophylax), Fatih, Istanbul, 19th Century (Colored Illustration)
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Byzantine city with 200 written records uncovered in Egypt’s Dakhla Oasis
Archaeologists have uncovered a well-preserved Byzantine residential city in Egypt’s Dakhla Oasis, offering a rare look at life in the Western Desert during the fourth and fifth centuries CE. The find comes from the Ain Al-Sabil archaeological site in the New Valley Governorate...
More information: https://archaeologymag.com/2026/07/byzantine-city-with-written-records-in-dakhla-oasis/
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#archaeology #archeology #archaeologynews #byzantine #egyptology #ancientegypt
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Countries Which Have At Some Point Claimed To Be Rome’s Successor [mapping / Third Rome]
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https://brilliantmaps.com/third-rome/ <-- shared technical / history article
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Succession_of_the_Roman_Empire <-- shared Third Rome wiki page
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“The [first] map… shows which countries have claimed to be the successor to the Roman Empire at some point in their history (the so-called Third Rome). Learn more about each [in this article]…”
#ThirdRome #RomanEmpire #Rome #successor #map #mapping #spatial #empire #civilisation #turkey #russia #byzantine #bulguria #serbia #greece #germany #austria #france #italy #history #ancienthistory #historiography #BrillantMaps
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Three Byzantine shipwrecks found off Turkey reveal centuries of Mediterranean trade
Three shipwrecks lying deep beneath the waters off southwestern Turkey are helping archaeologists piece together the story of Byzantine trade across the eastern Mediterranean.
The vessels, known as Knidos F, Knidos L, and Knidos N, were found near the ancient port city of Knidos on the Datça Peninsula...
More info: https://archaeologymag.com/2026/06/three-byzantine-shipwrecks-found-off-turkey/
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Egypt uncovers lost Byzantine-era city in the western desert - CBS News
Egypt uncovers lost Byzantine-era city in the western desert - CBS News https://share.google/2wmSO092dyomxLUVH -
The actual front side (north) of the Hagia Sophia during Eastern Roman times.
Not the best... as there are a lot of wobbly lines and I have not really filled in actual colors into it and refine stuff... so yeah... I'll leave it like this for now.
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Fuori dal tempo, decisamente nello spazio. Ora ho gli occhi pieni 🥹
#ravenna #mosaics #sanvitale #church #byzantine #roman #empire #architecture #history #unesco #minitrip -
Ancient mass grave in Jordan confirms victims of Justinian Plague pandemic
A mass grave uncovered in the ancient city of Jerash in modern-day Jordan is offering new evidence of how one of history’s earliest pandemics reshaped life and death in the Byzantine world. Researchers have confirmed the burial as the first biomolecularly verified plague mass grave from the First Pandemic...More info: https://archaeologymag.com/2026/04/ancient-mass-grave-in-jordan-justinian-plague/
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The Byzantine Generals Problem (Lamport, Shostak, Pease, 1982) shows why consensus is harder when faulty nodes send different messages to different recipients, not just stop responding.
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Am 5. Mai 2026, 17:30–19:00 Uhr CEST hält Hannah Busch (@cesare_blanc) den Online-Workshop „From the #Manuscript to the #DigitalScholarlyEdition“ innerhalb der Reihe „Digital Scholarly Editions in #Classics, #Byzantine, and #Medieval Studies“ @UniKoeln @unileipzig der #SunoikisisDC 2026.
Link: https://www.youtube.com/live/MHMYAW-oZlc
Eine Anmeldung ist nicht erforderlich, eine Vorbereitung mit den Unterrichtsmaterialien sei dennoch ans Herz gelegt: https://github.com/SunoikisisDC/SunoikisisDC-2025-2026/wiki/Summer-2026-Session-3
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Which nation treats the Byzantine Empire as part of its own history curriculum?
The #Byzantine Empire lasted over a thousand years, and even toward its end, its people were still debating and fighting among themselves over the nature of Christ and Christian theology.
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Palermo's Capella Palatina was constructed in the 12th c. under the Norman king Roger II. The architecture and mosaic decoration of the basilica are in the #Byzantine style, the earliest mosaics probably executed by artists brought to #Sicily from the Greek east. 📷🇮🇹 flic.kr/p/2cjC6Ax #photography
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The article jestingly suggests that teaching #AI to decipher #Byzantine #music notation is the next logical step after mastering... the Caesar cipher. 🤔 Apparently, AI loves a good musical challenge and can't resist dabbling in medieval symphonies with its newfound cryptographic skills. 🎶🧠
https://fi-le.net/byzantine/ #Cryptography #MusicalChallenge #MedievalSymphonies #HackerNews #ngated -
Also, it seems Justinian loved to play some Zelda games, as there’s some triforce triangles on the ground. And it’s not the only one pattern that can be found !
#holiday #holidays #trip #holidaytrip #ravenna #italia #basilica #basilicasanvitale #mosaic #justinian #byzantine #byzantium #theodora #triforce #zelda #pattern
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Allegedly, #Prighozhin’s march on #Moscow has ended in a deal brokered by #Lukashenko, in which #Wagner Group forces will head to #Belarus and … become Lukashenko’s #Varangian Guard, or something? Assuming of course #Putin doesn’t wait for them to get strung out on the road and bomb them all to bits.
I can’t help but be struck by how antiquated all this feels. The Varangian Guard reference above is deliberate—the whole thing is #Byzantine in both the original and modern senses of that word. Shades of #Belisarius and #Justinian. Yes, I know I’m mixing up periods, and the analogy is inexact in all kinds of ways: history doesn’t repeat itself, but sometimes it rhymes.
#Kings and #emperors and shifting personal loyalties, not cold-blooded calculation of national interests. It’s not the way #modern states make #war—even though #Ukraine may well be the first modern war of the twenty-first century, through future eyes. Something older, more visceral, rising from ancient slumber.
Hell of a time to be alive. I suppose that’s always true.
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I am a fan of #Viking history, and learned a couple of years ago that the #Varangian #Rus' presence was not limited to being the #VarangianGuard of the #Byzantine emperor.
Apart from that, in my understanding #Sveinald #Ingvarsson's (Sviatoslav I, aka #Sviatoslav the Brave, Grand Prince of #Kiev*) fascinating...
