I just wanted to say I absolutely love! all these food posts. :) They are helping me get some good inspiration for a Byzantine themed party. Juliana...
John; Well, following your "flow of engineering juices," I dug into the book "The Ancient Engineers" (L. Sprague de Camp). Looking into the Oriental Engineers...
John; Well, I am not sure about this. I know that on heavy loads such a large stone corn grinder no bearings were used since periodically the stones had to be...
... A range of mountains (also known as the Caspian Range) extending between he Euxine (Black) and the Caspian Seas (in a broader sense the term Caucasus is...
Greetings All; I have upgraded the subject item on my blog (http://RomanStudies.blogspot.com -- June 2, 2012,) for a better understanding of the picture. The ...
Roman Institutions #15 The military stipends are thus regulated. The pay of a soldier in the infantry is two oboli by the day; and double to the centurions....
Greetings all, I was tooling around the Internet this morning and came across some .pdf instructions for making boxes with a Byzantine design. It's kind of a...
Senator Cassius: In response to your questions, I have been devoting a little time to studying a book by the name of: "The Fortress of Rhodes, 1309 to 1522,"...
Greetings all, I just caught a reference to the Byzantine calendar, and looked it up. There was a lot of interesting information I really hadn't researched...
Greetings All! Today was a pretty good day at my house, in that the "Current World Archaeology Magazine" came today with a couple of interesting articles. One...
Greetings All; For those who have a military interest in the medieval world, I have posted three additional drawings on my Byzantium Novum Militarium blog. ......
I'm trying to find information on piercing and tattooing during the Byzantine Empire. I can't seem to find any good information. Is anyone familiar with this...
Greetings All; A Map of Israel has been uploaded into my Byzantium Novum Blog. (http://ByzantiumNovumMilitarium.blogspot.com ). Respectfully; Marcus Audens...
Greetings All; I have just this hour finished the blog entries for the subject ... The references for the above article are: --Beckworth. Christopher J....
Greetings All; Carl Otis Schuster, "The Battle of Talas River, AD 751," Strategy and Tactics Magazine, #273, Mar. -- Apr. 2012, Bakersfield, Calif. This story...
Greetings, I always wondered if the cloaks had the panel on the front and the back or just the front. This page from the Rassano Gospels shows a Byzantine man ...
I've been away from this blog for what seems like aeons. Between endless health problems, deaths of family, and trying to get my feet under me from another...
Greetings all, I posted this to the main list, but wanted to have it here as well... Yesterday I got a package a friend had sent, a bottle of Roman "garum"...
Query: It is my opinion that The Empire changed slowly over its 11 century existence. When I traveled to Mount Athos about 10 years ago, I found that ...
Greetings all, This is a busy time at work for me, and it has been difficult to find time to post! I'm still hopeful that Byzantium Novum can pull together a...
Greetings all, I'm thinking about promoting May 11, the day on which Constantinople was ceremonially consecrated by Constantine I, as a public holiday. I'm...
Greetings, Dumbarton Oaks just posted this on their facebook page. Wish I could go.... maybe Senator Baduila will go for me ;) "Tomorrow, March 22nd, from 2:00...
Greetings all, Here is another absolutely awesome recipe, this time a sweet Byzantine carrot paste (I swear it's good!) ****************************** ...
Greetings all, Wow, from the looks of this list, Byzantium Novum gots no culture! Time to liven things up a little... here is a recipe for Byzantine...
