As the first ever peer-reviewed volume on the subject, the new volume of SMC presents a much-needed introduction to shorthand and its history, alongside eight contributions by specialists that showcase some of the many lines of inquiry that shorthand inspires across a range of perspectives.

On 8 October, representatives of the CSMC welcomed the Tunisian consul, Nizar Jebabli, to Warburgstraße, who came to get an impression of the research and cultural heritage management activities at the cluster, especially our work in Tunisia.

ENCI, the world’s first mobile CT scanner for analysing cultural heritage objects, is on its second major field mission: At the Museum of Anatolian Civilisations in Ankara, Türkiye, researchers are looking inside sealed cuneiform tablets. But this time, they also use the method to study other objects.