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Byzantines dropping straight Greek Fire

https://piefed.social/c/historymemes/p/1540154/byzantines-dropping-straight-greek-fire

"The result of fifteen years of research, #Merchants of Knowledge tells the story of the #multilingual and #transregional #Jewish #scholars who acted as a conduit between the powers through their commercial and intellectual connections.

A key thing to remember about these “merchants of knowledge,” said Morrison, is that while they were scholars, they came from families who were also involved in commerce. These commercial links are described in the book as “the scaffolding of #intellectual exchange.”

Furthermore, stressed Morrison, this exchange of #knowledge was expansive and went beyond Copernicus and #astronomy to cover fields such as #philosophy, #Qabbalah, #astrology, #medicine, and other branches of #science. Furthermore, these #merchants of knowledge, who were largely #Romaniot #Jews originating from the #ByzantineEmpire, belonged neither entirely to the eastern #Ottoman culture nor to the western #European tradition."

https://www.bowdoin.edu/news/2025/11/intellectual-exchange-how-transregional-jewish-scholars-contributed-to-the-renaissance.html

Perun

In Slavic mythology, Perun is the highest god of the pantheon & the god of the sky, thunder, lightning, storms, rain, law, war, fertility, & oak trees. His other attributes were fire, mountains, wind, iris (the flower), eagle, firmament, horses & carts, & weapons (hammer, axe (Axe of Perun), & arrow).

The supreme god in the Kievan Rus’ during the 9th-10th centuries, Perun was first associated with weapons made of stone & later with those of metal. The Kievan Ris’ (a.k.a. Kyivan Rus’) was the 1st East Slavic state & later an amalgam of principalities in Eastern Europe from the late 9th to the mid-13th century. It encompasses a variety of peoples, including East Slavic, Norse, & Finnic.

The Primary Chronicle relates that in the year 6415 (907 AD) Prince Oleg (Old Norse: Helgi) made a peace treaty with the Byzantine Empire & by taking his men to the shrines & swearing by their weapons & by their God Perun, & by Volos, the God of cattle, they confirmed the treaty.

In 980, when Prince Vladimir the Great came to the throne of Kiev, he erected statues of 5 pagan gods in front of his palace which he soon thereafter discarded after his Christianization in 988.

Perun was chief among them, represented with a silver head & a gold moustache. Vladimir’s uncle, Dobrynya, also had a shrine of Perun established in his city of Novgorod. After the Christianization of Kievan Rus’ this place became a monastery, which continued to bear the name of Perun.

Perun was worshipped by the Varangian (Scandinavian) warriors hired by Oleg & Igor during the campaigns against Byzantium. In the treaty of 971, the Varangians reenforce with the Slavic deity, Veles.

When the arrival of Christianity, the old gods fared poorly amongst the Slavs. Grand prince Vladimir the Great, who had once been a very vocal & lavish patron of Perun, converted to Christianity.

In 988, the prince & his family & people of the Kievan Rus’ were collectively baptized. He ordered that the statues of Perun which he himself had erected formerly, be dethroned, torn down with great dishonor & dragged through the streets as they were beaten with sticks. The idols were then cast into rivers & not permitted to land on the shore. 3 of Vladimir’s sons are also recognized as saints.

In neopaganism interpretation, the struggle of St. George with the serpent is understood as the struggle of Perun with Veles, who stole cows from him.

According to the book Dezionization by Valery Yemelyanov, 1 of the founders of the Russian neopaganism, in the ideas of the “Veneti” (“Aryans”), there was a “trinity of three triune trinites”: Prav-Yav-Nav, Svarog-Perun-Svetovid, Soul-Flesh-Power.

In some currents, Perun may be the supreme patron god. Since 1992, the 1st neopagan Kupchinsky Temple of Perun has been in St. Petersburg.

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Another illustration of naval fire-throwers

Byzantine naval flamethrower for 'Greek fire'

👑🏛️ Justinian II ruled through opulence, not order.

His golden palaces became monuments to excess — and to his fall. ⚖️🔥

#History #ByzantineEmpire #Power #Brewminate

https://brewminate.com/byzantine-palaces-of-justinian-ii-imperial-extravagance-and-the-unraveling-of-a-reign/

Kit of a Byzantine cataphract

ANTI-BYZANTINE HOURS

KNOCK KNOCK

Mehmed the Conqueror ready to CONQUER THE SEA (ArchonOfFlesh)

𝗕𝘆𝘇𝗮𝗻𝘁𝗶𝗻𝗲 𝗕𝗶𝘀𝗵𝗼𝗽'𝘀 𝗣𝘂𝗯𝗹𝗶𝗰 𝗕𝗮𝘁𝗵𝗵𝗼𝘂𝘀𝗲 𝗙𝗼𝘂𝗻𝗱 𝗶𝗻 𝗧𝘂𝗿𝗸𝗲𝘆
Archaeologists uncover a massive 200-square-meter Byzantine bathhouse in Turkey's ancient Olympos, revealing how Christian bishops served both religious and civic roles by opening their private facilities to the public.
#ByzantineEmpire #AncientHistory #AncientOrigins
https://www.ancient-origins.net/news-history-archaeology/byzantine-bathhouse-olympos-00102199

Eustathios Rhomaios was a prominent Byzantine judge and jurist during the late-10th and early- to mid-11th century. #History #RomanLaw #EustathiosRhomaios #ByzantineEmpire #ByzantineLaw #Jurist #Law #HistoryFact https://whe.to/ci/1-25206-en/

𝗥𝗲𝗻𝗼𝘄𝗻𝗲𝗱 𝗥𝗼𝗺𝗮𝗻 𝗣𝗵𝗶𝗹𝗮𝗻𝘁𝗵𝗿𝗼𝗽𝗶𝘀𝘁’𝘀 𝗧𝗼𝗺𝗯 𝗗𝗶𝘀𝗰𝗼𝘃𝗲𝗿𝗲𝗱
Roman philanthropist Menodora's tomb discovered in Turkey reveals how one woman's 300,000 denarii donation transformed ancient Sillyon city through charitable foundations.
#byzantineempire #romanempire #AncientOrigins #AncientHistory
https://www.ancient-origins.net/news-history-archaeology/roman-philanthropist-00102178

If it’s at all true many men think about the #RomanEmpire every day, then there’s also probably a few who think about the #ByzantineEmpire fairly regularly …

The Constantinian Excerpts, or Excerpta Constantiniana is the conventional name given to the mid-10th Century Byzantine palace encyclopedia commissioned by the scholar emperor Constantine VII ‘Porphyrogenitus’ (reign 945-959). #History #ConstantineVII #ByzantineEmpire #Encyclopedia #History #HistoryFact https://whe.to/ci/1-25053-en/

Constantinople resisted invaders for a thousand years—until 1453. Some say it fell because someone left a gate open. The truth? Cannons, tactics, and technology finally brought the empire down.
#FallOfConstantinople #1453Siege #ByzantineEmpire #HistoryShorts #MehmedTheConqueror #KerkoportaGate #MilitaryHistory #DidILockTheGate #AncientHistory #Storytelling #DidYouKnow #HistoryFacts #DocumentaryShort #WeirdHistory
Read More:https://www.ancient-origins.net/weird-facts/constantinople-0016929

Lost Byzantine town of Tharais rediscovered in southern Jordan

After decades of research and field surveys, archaeologists have finally discovered the ancient Byzantine town of Tharais in southern Jordan. This find promises to reveal new insights into early Christian communities in the region...

More information: https://archaeologymag.com/2025/07/byzantine-town-of-tharais-rediscovered-in-jordan/

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#archaeology #archeology #archaeologynews #ByzantineEmpire #byzantineart #byzantine #tharais

Lost Byzantine town of Tharais rediscovered in southern Jordan

After decades of research and field surveys, archaeologists have finally discovered the ancient Byzantine town of Tharais in southern Jordan. This find promises to reveal new insights into early Christian communities in the region. Led by Dr. Musallam R. Al-Rawahneh, an Associate Professor of Archaeology at Mu’tah University, the excavation was conducted near the current village of El-ʿIrāq in the Karak Governorate.

The archaeologists uncovered evidence of a Byzantine basilica-type church, including fragments of mosaic floors, a rectangular stone doorway, and threshold stones that are comparable to those of other Byzantine religious buildings. The site around the church also featured an olive oil press, a grape press, and a watermill, indicating that the village was economically independent...

Our UK correspondent Liz Williams reports on findings suggesting that individuals buried at Sutton Hoo and similar sites may have been soldiers who served in the Byzantine army.

https://wildhunt.org/2025/01/discovery-of-saxon-sword-sheds-new-light-on-british-population.html

#suttonhoo #anglosaxon #archaeology #science #byzantineempire #research

Study reveals Roman Empire’s expansion following volcanic eruption and plague

Why empires fall is a question that fascinates many. But in the search for an answer, imagination can run wild. Suggestions have emerged in recent decades that attribute the rise and fall of ancient empires such as the Roman Empire to climate change and disease...

More information: https://archaeologymag.com/2025/01/roman-empires-expansion-after-volcanic-eruption/

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#archaeology #archeology #archaeologynews #anthropology #romanempire #byzantineempire

Study reveals Roman Empire’s expansion following volcanic eruption and plague

Why empires fall is a question that fascinates many. But in the search for an answer, imagination can run wild. Suggestions have emerged in recent decades that attribute the rise and fall of ancient empires such as the Roman Empire to climate change and disease. This has prompted discussions over whether “536 was the worst year to be alive”.

That year, a volcanic eruption created a dust veil that blocked the sun in certain regions of the world. This, combined with a series of volcanic eruptions in the following decade, is claimed to have caused a decrease in the global temperature. Between 541 and 544, there was also the first and most severe documented occurrence of the Justinianic plague in the eastern Roman Empire (also referred to as the Byzantine Empire), in which millions of people died.

There are still many in academia who claim that changes to the climate and the outbreak of plague were catastrophic for the eastern Roman Empire. New research shows that these claims are incorrect.

𝗪𝗜𝗞𝗜𝗣𝗘𝗗𝗜𝗔'𝗦 𝗙𝗘𝗔𝗧𝗨𝗥𝗘𝗗 𝗔𝗥𝗧𝗜𝗖𝗟𝗘

✧ first Arab siege of Constantinople in 674–678 ✧

The first Arab siege of Constantinople in 674–678 was a major conflict of the Arab–Byzantine wars, and the first culmination of the Umayyad Caliphate's expansionist strategy towards the Byzantine Empire. In 672–673 Arab fleets secured bases along the coa...

#UmayyadCaliphate #ByzantineEmpire #AsiaMinor #Constantinople #Byzantines #Wikipedia
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Siege_of_Constantinople_(674%E2%80%93678)

#ByzantineEmpire

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