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Scholars want to decipher a Virgil commentary and develop a digital transcription tool A digital tool is planned to assist in deciphering stenographic notes in historical documents.

The development of the earliest cities in Mesopotamia and the Middle East led to a substantial increase in violence between inhabitants.

How do plants shape our daily lives? Starting in October, a two-semester lecture series at the University of Würzburg will address this question and provide insights into the new field of plant study in the cultural sciences.

The Egyptian Book of the Dead provides unique insights into the religious life of ancient Egypt. A new handbook presents the current state of research.

A valuable book is gifted to the University of Bonn, after 70 years The University of Bonn was recently gifted an extraordinary book, the donation of which had been promised 70 years ago by the since deceased Dutch ambassador and sinologist Robert van Gulik.

Magical texts of the Ancient Near East, Egypt and neighbouring regions are the focus of a new research group at the University of Würzburg.

Limestone tablet decoded: double meaning combining official religion with personal piety How people cope with crises has always been a fruitful field of research for the sciences.

University of Münster signs agreement with university in Chernivtsi There are fundamentally more important issues which people at Ukrainian universities are currently concerned about than research, studies and exchanges.

Initial findings from the -Asking the Pope for Help- project: approach of Christian charity clearly recognisable during the Nazi period.

Collaborative Research Centre 933 "Material Text Cultures" offers insights into twelve years of research work In the last twelve years, over 160 researchers from many humanities disciplines of Heidel

Asia Minor Research Centre documents state of cultural monuments in the region in Turkey hit by earthquakes The images of the massive earthquakes which occurred in south-eastern Turkey on February 6 are shocking.

Study of foreign rule, and systemic inflammations: German Research Foundation (DFG) provides funding for new Humanities group and continues its support for a medical alliance Over seven million euros

A German-French research project including University Freiburg researchers is studying the significance of arenas in the "long twentieth century" Stadiums and other sport arenas are not merely functi

Researchers study the staging of religion on thousands of years old rock images The desert in southern Egypt is filled with hundreds of petroglyphs and inscriptions dating from the Neolithic to the Arab period.

Natural Hazard Research and Geoarchaeology team of JGU is investigating coastal developments in Western Greece over the last 11,600 years The ancient Greek historian Strabo referred to the presence of an important shrine located on the west coast of the Peloponnese some 2,000 years ago. Remains of such an Archaic temple have now been uncovered at the Kleidi site near Samikon, which presumably once formed part of the sanctuary of Poseidon.