Digital technologies are opening up new fields of study and generating research questions that breach traditional disciplinary boundaries.
New research has uncovered a forgotten chapter in the history of the Bible, offering a rare glimpse of Byzantine Jewish life and culture.
A millennium after its completion, an epic Persian poem is providing the springboard for a new centre of Persian studies in Cambridge.
Examples of the world’s oldest science and literature – 2,500-year-old clay writing tablets – hold clues as to how ancient scholars acquired and used...
The first-hand testimonies of thousands of people who witnessed the bloody rebellion that paved the way for centuries of sectarian conflict in...
Close scrutiny of text is the bedrock of a research culture that spans practically the whole range of contemporary English studies.
A digital archive of 500-year-old 'filofaxes' offers extraordinary insight into early thought and writing practices.
A new project is recording and making accessible the endangered oral literatures of indigenous peoples before they are lost forever.
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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Dragon’s Blood, Purple of Cassius and Scarlet Lake – all pigments concocted by the 19th-century 'Colourmen' of Winsor & Newton artists’ suppliers...
The Shahnama Project is building a powerful online resource that will stimulate research and interest in Persian cultural history.
Two very different projects in the University have at their heart the ancient craft of lexicography: the art of compiling and editing dictionaries...
