An open database of endangered languages has been launched by researchers in the hope of creating a free, online portal that will give people access...
Cambridge University film provides a glimpse of how robots and humans could interact in the future...
New research has uncovered a forgotten chapter in the history of the Bible, offering a rare glimpse of Byzantine Jewish life and culture.
A project at Cambridge University Library is developing services and resources to help academics manage their digital data.
A millennium after its completion, an epic Persian poem is providing the springboard for a new centre of Persian studies in Cambridge.
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.
The purity and linguistic correctness of the French language has been closely guarded by the French for centuries. Professor Wendy Ayres-Bennett is...
A new project is recording and making accessible the endangered oral literatures of indigenous peoples before they are lost forever.
Researchers at the Faculty of Divinity are using ancient manuscript fragments to re-evaluate a forgotten episode of biblical history.
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...
Collaboration between the University Herbarium and Microsoft Research Ltd has made a unique botanical collection available to a world-wide audience...
