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Workshops in Amarna: Many works of art from ancient Egypt, including the bust of Nefertiti, originate from the brief reign of Pharaoh Akhenaten. An international team of researchers aims to find out how artisans worked more than 3,000 years ago.

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Image Credit: The Amarna Project / Stephanie Boonstra, National Museum of Denmark / No. 9199

Professor Barbara Vetter Receives the Leibniz Prize 2026 from the German Research Foundation for work on the metaphysics and epistemology of modality

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For centuries Jewish communities living in Iraq cultivated a multitude of distinct dialects. Israeli linguist Assaf Bar-Moshe wants to preserve them for posterity.

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Hannah Arendt died fifty years ago, on December 4, 1975. Her reflections on authoritarian regimes and the dangers of concentrated power and mass ideology are highly relevant. Scholars at Freie Universität are working on a critical edition of her work

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Quantum Physicist at Freie Universität Berlin Receives ERC Consolidator Grant. European Research Council awards Dr. Philippe Faist nearly two million euros for research on quantum complexity

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ERC Consolidator Grant Awarded to Anthropologist at Freie Universität Berlin. Dr. Jürgen Schaflechner will lead a five-year study on conspiracy theories in South Asia funded by the European Research Council

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The Jewish Museum Berlin and Freie Universität Berlin Present Claude Lanzmann’s Audio Archive

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Image Credit: Jüdisches Museum Berlin, Foto: Roman März

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