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  • £1.8m AHRC funding awarded to Leicester’s School of Archaeology and Ancient History

    Date: 11/01/2021 00:00:00

    https://le.ac.uk/news/2021/january/ahrc-grant

    Nearly two million pounds of funding from UK Research and Innovation’s Arts and Humanities Research Council (AHRC) has been awarded to the...

  • Revealed, recorded and reported: 25 years of remarkable archaeological discoveries

    Date: 25/11/2020 00:00:00

    https://le.ac.uk/news/2020/november/ulas-book

    Remarkable remains of Leicester’s ancient past are being celebrated by the University of Leicester Archaeological Services (ULAS) team with a new...

  • Animal mummies unwrapped: hi-res 3D X-rays reveal secrets of life and death in ancient Egypt

    Date: 19/08/2020 23:00:00

    https://le.ac.uk/news/2020/august/animal-mummies

    Three mummified animals from ancient Egypt have been digitally unwrapped and dissected by researchers from the University of Leicester and...

  • Ancient skeleton provides the earliest evidence of a pet cat in Kazakhstan

    Date: 08/07/2020 23:00:00

    https://le.ac.uk/news/2020/july/cat-skull

    Uncovered in an urban settlement in Dzhankent, Kazakhstan, the analysis of the ancient animal skeleton shows this to be the first domesticated cat...

  • World Refugee Day: transforming lives through education

    Date: 19/06/2020 23:00:00

    https://le.ac.uk/news/2020/june/world-refugee-day

    On World Refugee Day, the University of Leicester is celebrating the transformative power of education to change lives, and the diversity that...

  • £1.7m awards announced for research spanning space and smoking

    Date: 23/04/2020 23:00:00

    https://le.ac.uk/news/2020/april/fellowships

    Two academics have received prestigious fellowships, announced today, to pursue research in planet formation and the effects of tobacco over time.

  • Trident and Triremes: funding for research into nuclear weapons and Ancient Greece

    Date: 10/12/2019 00:00:00

    https://le.ac.uk/news/2019/december/10-erc-grants

    Two University of Leicester academics have received more than three and a half million euros from the European Research Council for major projects...

  • Professor Richard Thomas and Dr Naoise Mac Sweeney go 'Digging for Britain' on BBC4

    Date: 27/11/2019 00:00:00

    https://le.ac.uk/news/2019/november/27-digging-for-britain

    Professor Richard Thomas from our School of Archaeology and Ancient History features on tonight's episode of Digging for Britain as series 2...

  • Plutarch’s domestic life explored in public lecture by expert in ancient history

    Date: 20/11/2019 00:00:00

    https://le.ac.uk/news/2019/november/20-plutarch-talk

    Ancient Greek writer Plutarch is the subject of a free public lecture at the University of Leicester on 26 November.

  • Fantastic Beasts and Where I Found Them

    Date: 15/11/2019 00:00:00

    https://le.ac.uk/news/2019/november/15-fantastic-beasts-and-where-i-found-them

    Join us for the first in a revamped series of Professorial Inaugural Lectures as Professor Richard Thomas discusses his research into human-animal...

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