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History / Archeology - Campus - 01.06.2023

History / Archeology - Social Sciences - 26.05.2023
Feature: Reclaiming indigenous history from Amazonian soil
Feature: Reclaiming indigenous history from Amazonian soil
UCL archaeologist Dr Manuel Arroyo-Kalin has been working with Brazilian researchers and indigenous peoples to help better understand and share their cultural heritage.

History / Archeology - 26.05.2023
Introducing the 2023 UCL University Challenge Team
Introducing the 2023 UCL University Challenge Team
UCL has competed in University Challenge since the show's debut in 1962. We speak to next season's team, who will compete in the first series without the inimitable Jeremy Paxman.

Architecture - History / Archeology - 23.05.2023
Exhibition explores ancient Ukrainian egalitarian city
Exhibition explores ancient Ukrainian egalitarian city
An exhibition at the Venice Architecture Biennale exploring the concept of cities and urbanism through the lens of a 6,000-year-old Ukrainian archaeological site was developed by a UCL researcher with the Forensic Architecture group at Goldsmiths University.

History / Archeology - 09.05.2023
Motion capture and 3D scans bring history to life for new Dambusters docudrama
Motion capture and 3D scans bring history to life for new Dambusters docudrama
CAMERA researchers used the latest digital technology to help create a new film documenting the attack on Sorpe Dam, narrated by a Dambuster veteran.

History / Archeology - 06.05.2023

History / Archeology - 04.05.2023

History / Archeology - Event - 03.05.2023

History / Archeology - 02.05.2023

History / Archeology - 28.04.2023
Silence speaks a thousand words
Researchers at the University of Warwick are working with a professional storyteller to bring a 13 century story about nonbinary gender identity to new audiences.

History / Archeology - Social Sciences - 27.04.2023
Opinion: Slavery’s historical link to marriage is still at play in some African societies
Professor Benedetta Rossi (UCL History), writing in The Conversation, explores the destructive legacy that slavery and forced marriage together have had on women in parts of Africa, both historically and how it continues to the present day.

Astronomy / Space Science - History / Archeology - 25.04.2023

Environment - History / Archeology - 19.04.2023

Life Sciences - History / Archeology - 14.04.2023
Analysis: DNA study opens a window into African civilisations that left a lasting legacy
Analysis: DNA study opens a window into African civilisations that left a lasting legacy
PhD candidate Nancy Bird (UCL Genetics Institute) describes in The Conversation how her genetics research reveals evidence of the migrations of ancient people across Africa, and other major events of the past, embedded in the genomes of today's inhabitants. Pre-colonial African history is alive with tales of civilisations rising and falling and of different cultures intermingling across the continent.

History / Archeology - Agronomy / Food Science - 04.04.2023

History / Archeology - 31.03.2023
Deepfakes: has the camera always lied?
Date Fake footage is a centuries-old problem that began long before digital technology, according to a Leeds academic. A new research paper, published in the philosophy journal Synthese , argues that deepfakes aren't as unprecedented as they may seem, as photos and videos have been the subject of manipulation for more than a century.

Politics - History / Archeology - 27.03.2023

Event - History / Archeology - 24.02.2023
Object, Idea, Desire: Exhibition of Freud's antiquities collection co-curated by UCL academic
Object, Idea, Desire: Exhibition of Freud’s antiquities collection co-curated by UCL academic
A new exhibition at the Freud Museum London and accompanying digital archive bring rarely seen antiquities from Sigmund Freud's extensive collection into dialogue with his key theories, co-curated by UCL Professor Miriam Leonard.

Paleontology - History / Archeology - 16.02.2023
Giant meat-eating dinosaur footprint is largest found in Yorkshire
An almost metre-long footprint made by a giant, meat-eating theropod dinosaur from the Jurassic Period represents the largest of its kind ever found in Yorkshire. Curiously, the unusual footprint appears to capture the moment that the dinosaur rested or crouched down some 166 million years ago. The Yorkshire coast is renowned for producing some visually and scientifically incredible fossils, including thousands of dinosaur footprints.

History / Archeology - Linguistics / Literature - 13.02.2023
Celebrating Shakespeare's First Folios across Scotland
Celebrating Shakespeare’s First Folios across Scotland
This year is the 400th Birthday of The First Folio, the first printed edition of William Shakespeare's collected plays.

History / Archeology - 23.01.2023
University of Glasgow experts reveal fascinating new insight into Robert Burns domestic life
University of Glasgow experts reveal fascinating new insight into Robert Burns domestic life
An astonishing discovery found at a 13 century Scottish castle has shed new light on the day-to-day domestic life of Robert Burns and his family, academics at the University of Glasgow have revealed.

Environment - History / Archeology - 19.01.2023
Archaeologists shed light on the lives of Stone Age hunter-gatherers in Britain
A team of archaeologists from the Universities of Chester and Manchester has made discoveries which shed new light on the communities who inhabited Britain after the end of the last Ice Age. Excavations carried out by the team at a site in North Yorkshire have uncovered the exceptionally well-preserved remains of a small settlement inhabited by groups of hunter-gatherers around ten and a half thousand years ago.

History / Archeology - 18.01.2023

History / Archeology - 16.01.2023
A history of how Indigenous Americans discovered Europe
A new book from a University of Sheffield academic flips the script on the accepted narrative that modern global history began when the 'Old World' encountered the 'New' On Savage Shores highlights t

History / Archeology - Environment - 15.12.2022
Drought encouraged Attila's Huns to attack the Roman empire, tree rings suggest
Drought encouraged Attila’s Huns to attack the Roman empire, tree rings suggest
Hunnic peoples migrated westward across Eurasia, switched between farming and herding, and became violent raiders in response to severe drought in the Danube frontier provinces of the Roman empire, a new study argues. People respond to climate stress in complex and unpredictable ways Susanne Hakenbeck Hungary has just experienced its driest summer since meteorological measurements began, devastating the country's usually productive farmland.

History / Archeology - 09.12.2022
’Cultural History of Youth in Antiquity’ amplifies unheard voices
A new volume edited by Professor of Ancient History at The University of Manchester Christian Laes gives a voice to young people who do not ordinarily feature widely in the history books.

History / Archeology - Campus - 23.11.2022

History / Archeology - 23.11.2022
Ancient Roman coins reveal long-lost emperor
Ancient Roman coins reveal long-lost emperor
A gold coin long dismissed as a forgery appears to be authentic and depicts a long-lost Roman emperor named Sponsian, according to a new UCL-led study. The coin, housed at The Hunterian collection at the University of Glasgow, was among a handful of coins of the same design unearthed in Transylvania, in present-day Romania, in 1713.

History / Archeology - Earth Sciences - 22.11.2022
Feature: Hunting for Neanderthal spear tips under the sea
Feature: Hunting for Neanderthal spear tips under the sea
A UCL-led team of archaeologists found spear tips and other stone tools that have been submerged under the English Channel since the last ice age, providing new clues about our Neanderthal past.

History / Archeology - Earth Sciences - 22.11.2022
Hunting for Neanderthal spear tips under the sea
Hunting for Neanderthal spear tips under the sea
A UCL-led team of archaeologists found spear tips and other stone tools that have been submerged under the English Channel since the last ice age, providing new clues about our Neanderthal past.

History / Archeology - 08.11.2022
12 stunning murals which reveal a remarkable Victorian vision of Manchester
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Environment - History / Archeology - 07.11.2022
Drastic retreat of Norway’s largest glacier highlights scale of climate change
A Geography expert from The University of Manchester has demonstrated the speed and scale of climate change in a new book, by outlining the immense changes to Norway's largest glacier he has observed during his career.

Art and Design - History / Archeology - 02.11.2022

History / Archeology - 28.10.2022

History / Archeology - Social Sciences - 24.10.2022

History / Archeology - Career - 21.10.2022
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