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- Gleaming Words: Cultural Interaction in Eurasian Golden Plate Inscriptions
- Materiality and Textual Transmission
- Navigating Multigraphic Written Artefacts
- Parchment Panomics: A Holistic Approach to Understanding and Conserving Parchment Manuscripts
- Provenancing Plant-Based Writing Supports
- Turning Rock into Pixels
- Writing in Colours
- Writing the Family: Genealogical Written Artefacts in Africa, Asia, and Europe
- Written Artefacts for Staging
- Individual Research Projects
- Arabic Music Theory and Music in Manuscripts of the Latin Middle Ages
- Archival Practices in Ancient Iraq
- Beyond Text: Books as Social Artefacts in Early 19th-Century Damascus
- Copies as Mediation Devices
- Generative AI for Revealing Palimpsests
- Intermedial Echoes
- Investigation of the Autochthonous Microbiota of Parchment and Identification of Potential Microbial Reasons for Decay
- Knowledge Transformation and Strands of Notation
- Mass Spectrometric Proteome Analysis of Written Artefacts
- Measurements of Paper Components
- On the Path of Ioannes Rhosos’ Quill
- Personal Record-keeping among Medieval Islamic Scholars
- Prayer, Protection and Plant Medicine
- Production, Use and Transmission of Administrative Documents on the Village Level in Late Medieval and Early Modern Japan
- Reading the Scholarly Archive in the Pre-Ottoman Arabic Middle East
- Reconstructing the Library of Dabra Ḥayq ʾƎsṭifānos
- Scribes and Scribal Practices in the ‘Timbuktu Archive’
- Sheep’s Liver as Written Artifact and the Oracle Lore
- Tangible Politics
- The Cultural History of Uyghur Literacy in Light of Multilingual and Multiscriptual Manuscripts
- The Repurposing of Letters and Personal Writings in Medieval Japanese Buddhism
- The Use of Parchment in Arabic Manuscripts of the Early Islamic Centuries
- Valuating Handwriting in East Asia in the Digital Age
- Zoroastrian Scribes and Scribal Practices During the Safavid Period (1501–1722)
- Affiliated Projects
- Research Data and Information Systems
- Knowledge Exchange
- International Network
- PIER
- Marie Sklodowska-Curie Postdoctoral Fellowships
- Library
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- Graduate School
- Master of Arts
- Doctoral Programme
- Summer & Winter Schools
- An Interdisciplinary History of Writing
- Digital Strategies in Ancient Studies
- Winter School on Ethics and the Study of Written Artefacts 2026
- What Makes Egyptian Art Recognisable as Such?
- Cuneiform Culture and the Akkadian Language
- Hebrew Codicology
- At the Origin of Egyptian Civilization
- Ethiopian and Eritrean Manuscript Studies
- Classical Tamil Summer Seminar
- J. P. Gumbert Dissertation Award
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- Studies in Manuscript Cultures
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- Occasional Papers
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- Artefact of the Month
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- manuscript cultures
- Ajami Lab
- European Network of Dravidian Studies (ENDS)
- Kairouan Manuscript Project
- Preserving the Written Cultural Heritage of Nepal
- Safeguarding the Manuscripts of Timbuktu
- UWA 2023
- Written Artefact Profiling Guide
- Questions
- What is my Written Artefact made of?
- How does my WA change through time?
- Where does my WA come from?
- Can the damaged or hidden writing be made visible again?
- How can different writing initiatives be distinguished?
- How to date my WA?
- How to prove my WA is not a forgery?
- Can material analysis help the preservation and conservation of my WA?
- How can I study my WA if I only have digital images?
- How can my paleographical analysis be corroborated?
- Materials
- Methods & Equipment
- Microscopy
- Imaging
- VIS-NIR Spectrophotometry
- X-Ray Diffraction
- X-Ray Emission Spectrometry
- Vibrational Spectroscopies
- Mass Spectrometry
- Laser Ablation - Inductively Coupled Plasma - Mass Spectrometer (LA-ICP-MS); Agilent 7800 x with Laser Ablation Unit from Electro Scientific Industries
- Mass Spectrometer; Ion Mobility Q-TOF Instrument with UHPLC System, Agilent
- Mass Spectrometer; Orbitrap (Q Exactive) Instrument with nanoLC System, Thermo Fisher Scientific
- Mass Spectrometer; Xevo G2-XS QTof with ASAP Source, Waters
- Omics-Analysis
- Computational Approaches
- Analysis of Physical Properties
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