Congratulations to Ann Lauren Osthof on defending her dissertation, thus completing her PhD in Archaeology! The viva voce examination took place on 22 January 2024.

The Jerusalem guestbook of Miryam and Moshe Ya’akov Ben-Gavriêl is a small object of only 200 pages – yet it opens doors to more stories than a single researcher can uncover. Sebastian Schirrmeister wants to use new digital techniques to explore this microcosm and link it to larger bodies of knowledge. On 23 January, he...

A TV documentary spotlights the spectacular case of the ‘Mummy Book’ – the supposedly oldest codex fragment in the world, found in Graz in 2023. It also shows the investigations of the object at the CSMC, which play a crucial role in clarifying the open questions surrounding the ‘Mummy Book’.