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  • New species revealed after 25 years of study on ‘inside out’ fossil – and named after discoverer’s mum

    https://le.ac.uk/news/2025/march/new-species-inside-out-fossil-named-after-mum

    Study from University of Leicester describes a new species of fossil that is 444 million years-old with soft insides perfectly preserved and saw palaeontologist puzzled by bizarre fossil for 25 years

  • Thinking Through Things

    https://le.ac.uk/modules/2026/ar1012

    Module code: AR1012 This module challenges the stereotype of archaeology as the study of ancient, dusty and rather irrelevant things in the past.

  • Thinking Through Things

    https://le.ac.uk/modules/2025/ar1012

    Module code: AR1012 This module challenges the stereotype of archaeology as the study of ancient, dusty and rather irrelevant things in the past.

  • Thinking Through Things

    https://le.ac.uk/modules/2024/ar1012

    Module code: AR1012 This module challenges the stereotype of archaeology as the study of ancient, dusty and rather irrelevant things in the past.

  • Research

    https://le.ac.uk/law/research

    Leicester Law School is a research-led department committed to producing the highest quality of scholarship while recognising the important relationship between excellence in research and in teaching. Find out more about the research undertaken by the School.

  • Researchers develop pioneering X-ray technique to analyse ancient artefacts

    https://le.ac.uk/news/2017/june/researchers-develop-pioneering-x-ray-technique-to-analyse-ancient-artefacts

    A pioneering X-ray technique that can analyse artefacts of any shape or texture in a non-destructive way has been developed by an international team of researchers led by our University.

  • Free online course offers unique insights into the time of Richard III

    https://le.ac.uk/news/2017/february/free-online-course-offers-unique-insights-into-the-time-of-richard-iii

    As the second anniversary of the reinterment of Richard III approaches in March, our University is relaunching its highly popular online course that explores what it was really like to live in the world of the last Plantagenet King.

  • University of Leicester archaeologists identify ancient Stonehenge gold digging kit

    https://le.ac.uk/news/2022/december/gold

    University of Leicester archaeologists have identified a 4000-year-old gold working tool kit amongst the grave goods from an important Bronze Age burial near Stonehenge.

  • Environment scientists close in on ‘golden spike’ to define Anthropocene

    https://le.ac.uk/news/2022/may/anthropocene-berlin

    Leicester researchers searching for a ‘golden spike’ to formally define humanity’s current geological period – and acknowledge human impact on our planet – have announced a major step in their analysis at an international conference today (Wednesday).

  • Awards and collaborations

    https://le.ac.uk/research/centres/material-worlds-past-present/awards-collaborations

    Find out about recent and current collaborations undertaken by the Centre for Material Worlds Past and Present

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