The position is for a full-time, fixed-term postdoctoral researcher for a period of three years. It is intended for an independent research project with a focus on written artefacts in precolonial Mesoamerica, and the project should fit the broader comparative research profile of UWA.

What can cuneiform tablets from Mesopotamia tell us about life in ancient times? In her blog, Assyriologist Cécile Michel shares a wealth of stories from the earliest writing culture. Eight new episodes have now been published in English.

The position is for a full-time, fixed-term postdoctoral researcher for a period of three years. It is intended for an independent research project on written artefacts in the history of science, and the project should fit the broader comparative research profile of UWA.

This summer, Kyle Ann Huskin and Ivan Shevchuk spent four intensive weeks as guests of the Bibliothèque nationale de France (BnF) in Paris. They led an in-depth professional workshop for the BnF’s photographers on the application of multispectral imaging (MSI).

The Cluster of Excellence Understanding Written Artefacts (UWA) at the CSMC is inviting applications for five doctoral researcher positions starting on 1 January 2027.

Political factors, environmental risks, storage conditions — numerous factors can complicate work with written artefacts and may turn it into a crisis situation. But what does ‘crisis’ mean in this context, and how can such crises be addressed? At the CSMC, Dmitry Bondarev leads a new CMU on this topic.

The mobile CT scanner ENCI makes non-destructive insights into sealed cuneiform tablets from antiquity possible. A few weeks after the first research article about the device, jointly developed at CSMC and DESY, was published, it has now been featured in ‘The New York Times’.

The Cambridge historian was one of the most influential medievalists of recent decades. She was connected to the CSMC for many years, among other things as a member of the Advisory Board.