Newsroom University of Manchester (cahae)
Filter by year
2024
06
February
2024
|
11:58
Europe/London
Colleagues Sonja Bernhard (TLSE Coordinator) and Jane Barker (Archaeology PhD student) ran an Insight Day giving the year 12 students first-hand experience with the archaeology teaching collection in our archaeology lab. Based upon the success of …
Read more
2023
07
November
2023
|
15:30
Europe/London
It’s an industry with an estimated 2.5 billion global players with games played on consoles, mobile devices and VR headsets. How can video games be a tool that offers educational benefits to this worldwide audience?Following on from the livestream …
Read more
15
August
2023
|
13:29
Europe/London
A team from the universities have been excavating at Arthur's Stone in Herefordshire, and continue to make exciting discoveries at the site, believed to date to 3700BC. Professor Julian Thomas, Director of Archaeology at the University of …
Read more
2022
01
July
2022
|
10:01
Europe/London
Archaeologists from The University of Manchester have started a dig at a 5,000-year-old tomb linked to King Arthur, hoping to answer some of the mysteries surrounding the enigmatic site in the process.
Read more
22
February
2022
|
12:18
Europe/London
On Monday, 7 March 2022 the University will welcome David Wengrow FBA, Professor of Comparative Archaeology at University College London.The lecture, titled ‘For an anthropology and archaeology of freedom’ will draw on Professor Wengrow’s …
Read more
2021
07
July
2021
|
14:10
Europe/London
Thomas returns to The University of Manchester, where he spent five years as Professor of Musicology and Head of the Division of Art History, Drama and Music. He has also held posts at Bangor University, the University of Frankfurt and the …
Read more
14
January
2021
|
16:13
Europe/London
Due to popular demand, the deadline for entries for The University of Manchester Making a Difference Awards has been extended.The new closing date is midnight on 24 January 2021. It is hoped the extension will help anyone struggling to meet the …
Read more
2020
08
December
2020
|
11:50
Europe/London
The University of Manchester’s School of Arts, Languages and Cultures (SALC) will be hosting a celebration to mark the strength and resilience of its students in a virtual event.The celebration will take place at 3pm on Wednesday 16 December …
Read more
28
October
2020
|
16:26
Europe/London
Egyptology has stormed The University of Manchester’s Outstanding Teaching, Learning and Student Experience Awards.
Nicky Nielsen and Joyce Tyldesley received Outstanding Teaching Awards for the 2019-2020 academic year, while …
Read more
26
October
2020
|
16:32
Europe/London
The Department of Classics, Ancient History, Archaeology and Egyptology (CAHAE) is delighted to announce that recent Archaeology and Anthropology graduate Kate MacLachlan has been awarded runner-up in the Prehistoric Society’s Undergraduate …
Read more
20
October
2020
|
16:40
Europe/London
The Manchester Classical Association has announced a programme of engaging new online talks for a public audience, including teachers, pupils and students for 2020/21.
The organisation, which was founded over a century ago, is run by …
Read more
24
September
2020
|
16:25
Europe/London
Ancient Egypt fever has barely cooled in Western civilisation since the first major excavations European excavations in Egypt after the Napoleonic conquest of the country in 1798, and a new book written by University of Manchester Egyptology …
Read more
02
September
2020
|
16:16
Europe/London
Students from The University of Manchester’s Department of Classics, Ancient History, Archaeology and Egyptology are exploring intriguing discussion points about ancient societies and history in a podcast series that is going from strength to …
Read more
29
July
2020
|
12:20
Europe/London
Three postgraduate research students within the Department of Classics, Ancient History, Archaeology and Egyptology have successfully completed their PhDs, despite the unprecedented circumstances of concluding their work under lockdown.
Katharine …
Read more
17
July
2020
|
10:43
Europe/London
The virtual celebration for the School of Arts, Languages and Cultures will take place at 3pm on Tuesday 28 July and will be available to view on the SALC YouTube channel. The celebrations will stay online following the event, therefore any students …
Read more
05
June
2020
|
16:25
Europe/London
Lockdown conditions did not hold IARSS 2020 (the 23rd Iron Age Research Student Symposium) back from being a success.
Organisers of the event, which was due to take place on 3-4 June 2002 at The University of Manchester, chose to take their …
Read more
2019
28
October
2019
|
14:34
Europe/London
Q: You are one of the leaders of the ‘Prehistory to Primary Schools’ outreach project. Can you tell us more about the project, and why it is so important for the children that it reaches?
A: Prehistory to Primary Schools is a …
Read more
07
June
2019
|
10:51
Europe/London
A new master’s in Egyptology offered by the University of Manchester’s School of Arts, Languages and Cultures is the first of its kind to be entirely online.
Led by Dr Nicky Nielsen, MA Egyptology is already accepting admissions from …
Read more
14
May
2019
|
14:35
Europe/London
Prof Peter Oakes recently gave a paper at the Early Synagogue Archeology Conference in Lausanne.
The last decade has seen a mushrooming of our awareness of remains of First- and early Second-Century synagogues in Galilee and Judaea.
On …
Read more
2017
24
July
2017
|
14:27
Europe/London
A student from The University of Manchester is celebrating after graduating from her degree only three months after giving birth to twin girls.
Read more
2008
01
September
2008
|
01:00
Europe/London
Two foetuses found in the tomb of Tutankhamen may have been twins and were very likely to have been the children of the teenage Pharaoh, according to the anatomist who first studied the mummified remains of the young King in the 1960s.
Robert …
Read more
