of ancient Near Eastern cultures from the 4th century BC to the 1st century AD and demonstrate the connections between Mesopotamia and the Indus Valley civilisation as early as the 3rd millennium BC [...] through schoolchildren’s tablets, to an Aramaic magic bowl from the 1st…
, but is a masterpiece of space efficiency: what stretches over 1.50 metres in length on a bassoon – the tube – has here been coiled into a spiral and packed inside a handy case. You cannot see the
thousand pounds, this suitcase-sized instrument, priced at around 1,000 pounds, was a sensation. From air to electronic sound: Lyricon At the 1979 ‘Ars Electronica’, Bruno Spoerri won first prize in
Bavarian Forest, we discovered the remains of a mummified cat (Fig. 1). The cat under the roof piqued my curiosity, and I set out to investigate. How long had it been lying there? The Waldlerhaus, [...] appeared in the *Journal of the History of Ideas*: Issue XVIII/1, Spring 2024…
area studies line of funding. In the second phase of funding (May 1, 2014 – April 30, 2016), the network was expanded to meet goals defined in the research program “Inequality Research in Latin America
end of November. With the new Foundation Act coming into force on 1 December, we will have a new Prussian Cultural Heritage Foundation. This is an important milestone in a protracted process at which
of the general public covering all museums in Germany, with over 1,000 respondents. The President of the Klassik Stiftung Weimar, Ulrike Lorenz, recently spoke in SPIEGEL of ‘mediating institutions’
: featuring several reading rooms, exhibition and event spaces, a 1.7-kilometre-long book transport system invisible to users, a digitisation centre and vaults for valuable cultural heritage such as
25th anniversary, I wish to briefly highlight just three of them 1. Hard Core Science Our two disciplines, prehistory and early history, and heritage science, could not be more different. Language and
total, the SPK returned Parzinger’s tenure, the SPK has returned 1,572 books and 223 works of art – one of which was August Gaul’s “Reclining Lion”, confiscated in 2015 as a result of Nazi persecution [...] Dresden State Art Collections, will succeed Hermann Parzinger on 1 June 2025.…