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Under a grant from the Humboldt Foundation, Professor Robert Braun of the University of California Berkeley is conducting research on scare stories for children How were anti-Semitism, fear and children's scare stories connected in late 19th and early 20th-century Europe?

Excavations at an ancient Iraqi site called Shakhi Kora have revealed new clues about the origins of the world's earliest governing institutions, according to research led by the University of Glasgow. The research published in the journal Antiquity today (Wednesday 4 December 2024) suggests these early governing institutions emerged partly from their ability to provide large-scale meals, potentially as payment for labour.

The German Research Foundation has approved around one million euros for an interdisciplinary research group at the Würzburg Egyptology Department.

A rare book featuring handwritten notes by Adam Smith is now on display in his hometown of Kirkcaldy.

A new research collaboration between the K'ómoks First Nation and Simon Fraser University highlights how Indigenous cultural heritage policies can protect archaeological sites threatened by development, given inadequate provincial heritage protection laws.

In the aftermath of the fire, the French Ministry of Culture and the CNRS implemented a vast scientific effort to support the restoration of Notre-Dame Cathedral in Paris.

Are the cliffs of Athribis hiding a former sanctuary' In the small Egyptian village near Sohag, around 200 kilometers north of Luxor, researchers from the University of Tübingen, supported by the Egyp

Historians identify medieval document as work of Italian counterfeiter   A document held in Göttingen University's Faculty of Humanities has been revealed as an 18 century forgery.

At the head of a major research programme, Anne-Madeleine Goulet has unearthed a buried treasure from Roman archives: one hundred years of prolific creation on the stage from the seventeenth to the eighteenth century, under the auspices of an aristocracy seeking prestige.

Corentin Sire's doctoral research explores the socio-political concept of terrorism, its history and how it has changed over time within the United Nations.

Research Fellow Alexander V. Gheorghiu (UCL Computer Science) describes in The Conversation a new method of logic developed by philosophers, mathematicians and computer scientists that has implications for how AI operates.

Comment: Researchers have invented a new system of logic that could boost critical thinking and AI Alexander Gheorghiu (UCL Computer Science) explores the concept of "inferentialism", a new understanding of logic, in The Conversation.

The discovery at UCL of three books owned by Oscar Wilde, the acclaimed author and playwright, has provided an invaluable insight into his Asian influences and Britian's LGBTQ+ history at the turn of the 20th Century.

Tucked away in the dramatic Highland landscape of Glencoe lies a treasure trove of untold stories, hidden for centuries beneath the earth.

Archaeologists from Durham University and University of Al-Qadisiyah in Iraq have pinpointed the location of a famous early Islamic battle using declassified spy satellite images.

New research has revealed 15,800-year-old engravings of catching fish in traps. The ice-age camp site of Gönnersdorf on the banks of the Rhine, Germany, has revealed a groundbreaking discovery that sheds new light on early fishing practices.

Study refutes previous assumptions and reveals the cosmopolitan origin of the inhabitants of Pompeii Researchers from the University of Florence, Harvard University and the Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology in Leipzig have used ancient DNA to challenge long-held interpretations of the people of Pompeii.

An international team of researchers led by professor of Egyptology at Freie Universität Berlin Jochem Kahl made the discovery An international team of archaeologists led by Professor Jochem Kahl from Freie Universität Berlin has made an incredible discovery in the necropolis of Asyut, Egypt.

A 2,000-year-old infestation unearthed near Hadrian's Wall reveals the Romans did not just bring their legions to Britain, they also brought bedbugs.