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The Oxyrhynchus Archaeological Mission, led by the Institute of Ancient Near East Studies of the University of Barcelona (IPOA), under the direction of Ignasi-Xavier Adiego, has concluded its latest campaign with findings of exceptional historical and archaeological relevance.

UV experts in underwater archaeology and naval architecture Agustín Díez and Carlos de Juan are finishing the preparations for the delicate rescue of the 2,600-year-old vessel.

Valentín Villaverde, in 1989, with the cranial fragment from which it was concluded that Neanderthals cared for their children with Down syndrome and cooperated with each other.

A multidisciplinary research team from the University of Valencia (ArchaeChemis) and Italian and Indian research centres has confirmed that the archaeological site of Alagankulam (India) was one of th

Domingo Carlos Salazar, biomolecular archaeologist and researcher at the Department of Prehistory, Archaeology and Ancient History of the University of Valencia, has been one of the winners of the aw

Cultura The book La Facultat de Filosofia i Lletres de la Universitat de Barcelona (1902-1973).

A multidisciplinary analysis led by Santiago Mas-Coma, emeritus full professor of Parasitology at the University of Valencia (UV) and published in Clinical Microbiology Reviews , reveals the strategie

The full professor of Geography at the University of Valencia Josep Vicent Boira has studied what the landscape of El Grau of València was like in pre-industrial times through 16 engravings and maps by different authors.

New issue: -Vida social: Una historia natural de las sociedades- (-Social Life: a natural history of societies-) What is the role of cooperation in our evolution?

Cultura The author of this book , the historian Jonathan López-Vera, has studied the relationships between the government of Toyotomi Hideyoshi, and the Portuguese and Castilians during the 1587-1598 period.

The archaeological mission of the Institute of Ancient Near East Studies of the UB at the site of Oxyrhynchus (Egypt), led by researchers Maite Mascort and Esther Pons, has made a series of important discoveries.

Titled "Whose Culture? Cultural Appropriation and Repatriation in Africa", the session will include a presentation by Ciraj Rassool, a full professor of History at the University of the Western Cape

Cultura Editions and Publications of the UB has published La Segunda República Española: textos fundamentales , a book that gathers a selection of laws, speeches and proclamations of one of the most intense periods in the history of Spain.

An article published in the journal Ceramics International reveals a new methodology that combines two characterization techniques based on synchrotron light to study Chinese blue and white porcelain from the Ming dynasty, a lineage that governed in China from 1368 to 1644. This innovative protocol could contribute to elucidate production technology in a wide range of modern and archaeological ceramics.

Cultura Rosanna Rion, lecturer at the Department of Modern Languages and Literatures and English Studies of the Faculty of Philology and Communication, has translated for the first time into another language -Spanishthe book Arrow Music (Animal Sospechoso, 2021), by the poetess Bryher.