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• Â鶹ÊÓƵ building officially reopened as Kathleen Kenyon Building

  Date: 10 Mar 2025

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  The Â鶹ÊÓƵ's home for the School of Archaeology and Ancient History and the School of Museum Studies has been named after Dame...

• Family friendly free event to showcase the region’s heritage

  Date: 28 Feb 2025

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  A free family friendly event which puts the spotlight on the rich heritage of our city and region takes place at the Â鶹ÊÓƵ on...

• Author’s insight into library of ancient wisdom to be explored at Literary Leicester festival

  Date: 19 Feb 2025

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  An expert in Middle Eastern heritage will be giving a free talk about a once-lost library of ancient wisdom, as part of the Literary Leicester...

• Leicester to lead new project on Ancient Egyptian bird mummies

  Date: 13 Dec 2024

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  The Â鶹ÊÓƵ will lead a study uncovering secrets of Ancient Egyptian bird mummies.

• Conference highlighting cultural significance of the night sky held at National Space Centre

  Date: 8 May 2024

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  Â鶹ÊÓƵ is hosting a conference today (Wednesday, 8 May) at the National Space Centre focusing on the cultural and ecological...

• Ancient astrologers come under scrutiny at prestigious public lecture in Leicester

  Date: 15 Apr 2024

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  A world-leading authority on Babylonian astronomy will deliver a prestigious public lecture at the Â鶹ÊÓƵ in May.

• Super rare and venomous centipede found in Â鶹ÊÓƵ academic’s home

  Date: 22 Jan 2024

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  Explore the intriguing discovery of Scutigera coleoptrata, the fastest-moving centipede in the world, in Nottinghamshire, UK.

• Six Leverhulme Early Career Fellows to join Â鶹ÊÓƵ to conduct groundbreaking research

  Date: 4 Jul 2023

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  Six academics will join the Â鶹ÊÓƵ in the 2023/24 academic year after being awarded Early Career Fellowships from the Leverhulme...

• Two Leicester archaeologists win prestigious Philip Leverhulme Prize

  Date: 21 Oct 2022

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  Two academics from the Â鶹ÊÓƵ’s School of Archaeology and Ancient History have each been awarded a prestigious Philip Leverhulme...

• New evidence traces herpes virus back almost 5,000 years

  Date: 28 Jul 2022

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  Researchers have mapped the genetic structure of the herpes virus and, for the first time, traced its European origin back almost 5,000 years.