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Discarded history: Cairo Genizah treasures

31 May 2022

How the discovery and study of ancient deeds, fables, letters, magical amulets, contracts and lists in a sacred storeroom created unparalleled...

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‘Photographing Tutankhamun’ exhibition reveals historical context behind pioneering images

14 Jun 2018

Iconic photography taken during the decade-long excavation of King Tutankhamun’s tomb has gone on display at Cambridge University’s Museum of...

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Usermontu Mummy

First complete genome data extracted from ancient Egyptian mummies

30 May 2017

Study finds that ancient Egyptians were most closely related to ancient populations from the Middle East and Western Asia.

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Discarded History exhibition lifts the lid on 1,000 years of medieval history

27 Apr 2017

Treasures from the world’s largest and most important collection of medieval Jewish manuscripts – chronicling 1,000 years of history in Old Cairo –...

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Full length view of coffin from the coffin set of Nespawershefyt, About 1000 BC

Uncovering the afterlife of ancient Egypt

25 Feb 2016

The Fitzwilliam Museum is marking its bicentenary anniversary celebrations with an exhibition on its remarkable collection of Egyptian coffins.

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One of the pre-Dynastic Egyptians analysed in the project

Biographies in bone

26 Mar 2014

The diet and journeys taken by those who lived in the Sahara Desert thousands of years ago are being analysed through their teeth and bones.

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Egypt

Climate change: it’s all happened before…

22 Oct 2013

We are not the first to experience environmental change. Does the past have anything to teach us as we search for ways to adapt?

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Nasr City/revolution will not be tweeted

Workers’ strikes and Facebook likes

24 May 2013

Research on Egypt is looking at how to read revolution and grass roots opposition through social media.

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Free TV Texture

Watching religiously

20 May 2010

A new survey of the boom in religious broadcasting in the Middle East reveals how the small screen is becoming an increasingly important battlefield...

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Games!

Praise for research initiative on British Muslims

09 Apr 2010

A Cambridge University-led project which investigated what it means to be a Muslim living in modern Britain has won high praise as a model for future...

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Ben Ezra Synagogue

Treasures of the genizah

01 Sep 2009

How did an Egyptian storeroom come to hold a thousand years worth of manuscript fragments and why are they one of the greatest literary treasures...

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Portus

Portus Project: bringing to life Trajan’s legacy

01 Jan 2009

Excavation and geophysical survey are uncovering the secrets of an exceptionally diverse Imperial Roman landscape.

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