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‘CELTIC BRITAIN’ IN PRE‐ROMAN ARCHAEOLOGY, RECONSIDERED

open access: yesOxford Journal of Archaeology, Volume 44, Issue 4, Page 446-461, November 2025.
Summary For forty years archaeologists have avoided referring to pre‐Roman Britain and its inhabitants as ‘Celtic’ on the grounds that contemporaries never described them as such. This is incorrect. The second‐century BC astronomer Hipparchus quotes Pytheas (c. 320 BC) as having referred to Britons as ‘Keltoi’.
Patrick Sims‐Williams
wiley   +1 more source

50 Years Anniversary of Sergei Bocharov

open access: yesПоволжская археология, 2020
The article is dedicated to the 50th Anniversary of the Candidate of Historical Sciences Sergei Gennadievich Bocharov, academic secretary of the Institute of Archaeology named after A.Kh. Khalikov of Tatarstan Academy of Sciences.
Yavorskaya Liliya V.   +2 more
doaj   +1 more source

Byzantine Period Bronze Reliquary Crosses in the Collection of the Balıkesir Kuva-yi Milliye Museum

open access: yesArt-Sanat, 2023
Kuva-yi Milliye Museum is located on Anafartalar Street in Balıkesir. The building was used as a headquarters during the national struggle. It has been functioning as a museum since 1996.
Feride İmrana Sıddıki
doaj   +1 more source

Mountainous vegetation succession and land use during the last millennium in the Peloponnese (southern Greece): Environmental change and economic development in an isolated periphery

open access: yesJournal of Quaternary Science, Volume 40, Issue 7, Page 1269-1284, October 2025.
ABSTRACT Mediterranean mountainous areas and their valuable natural resources have long been attractive to human societies. The Peloponnese (southern Greece), with its complex topographic and climatic variability, has been the scenery for the development of numerous human communities.
Katerina Kouli   +11 more
wiley   +1 more source

Byzantium and the Crusades: Constantine X's Embassy to Honorius II in 1062

open access: yesHistory, Volume 110, Issue 392, Page 459-473, September 2025.
Abstract The Byzantine emperor Alexios I's 1095 embassy to Pope Urban II has been characterized in three different ways: as a request for troops that inadvertently triggered the First Crusade, as a manipulation of western reverence for the Holy Sepulchre and as active Byzantine–papal collaboration.
JONATHAN HARRIS
wiley   +1 more source

Ingvar the Far-Travelled: between the Byzantium and Caucasus. A Maritime Approach to Discussion

open access: yesStudia Ceranea, 2019
The Journey to the East of the Viking Ingvar the Far-Traveled is one of the events that fit into the history of medieval relations of the Scandinavians with the world of Byzantium.
Marcin Böhm
doaj   +1 more source

Letters, gifts and messengers. The epistolary strategies of St Radegund

open access: yesEarly Medieval Europe, Volume 33, Issue 3, Page 309-340, August 2025.
This article studies the ways the sixth‐century queen and monastic founder Radegund (c.520–87) managed the non‐textual elements of communication by letter. While Radegund’s role as a writer and commissioner of letters has been well studied, her efforts as an orchestrator of letter deliveries, gift exchanges and other associated acts of public ...
Robert Flierman, Hope Williard
wiley   +1 more source

Protection of Documents, Cryptography and Secret Communications in Byzantium (the 4th—15th centuries)

open access: yesБезопасность информационных технологий, 2012
Origin and evolution of cryptography in Byzantium haven’t been studied yet. We discuss here how the written texts were ciphered, how the integrity and authenticity of documents were ensured in Byzantium in the 4th—15th centuries A.D.
S. V. Zapechnikov
doaj  

Semantra and bells in Byzantium

open access: yes, 2018
According to written sources, semantra were used to summon the faithful to prayer throughout the history of Byzantium, during more than one millennium.
Bojan Miljkovic
semanticscholar   +1 more source

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