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Bilddatenbank Bibliothek St. Moritz project image

Bilddatenbank Bibliothek St. Moritz

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Bibliothek St. Moritz Dokumentation is the local history archive of the community of St. Moritz, Switzerland.

Project 0804
Life Histories of Theban Tombs project image

Life Histories of Theban Tombs

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LHTT focuses on a cluster of tombs in the Theban Necropolis (Egypt). It investigates the evolution of the hillside and explores the history of the tombs from early 2nd mill. BCE to 20th c. CE.

Project 0820
Participation in Social Health Protection: An Anthropological Case Study in Tanzania project image

Participation in Social Health Protection: An Anthropological Case Study in Tanzania

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This project calls for a broad view of social health protection, comprising health care funding and people’s ubiquitous but less visible strife for participation in self-organized groups and networks.

Project 083D
University of Basel Kings’ Valley Project project image

University of Basel Kings’ Valley Project

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Assessment of tombs in the Kings’ Valley used for burials of royal family and entourage (ca. 1350 BCE), looted (ca. 1000 BCE), and reused for burials of members of priestly families (ca. 800–700 BCE).

Project 0805
I-GEOARCHive project image

I-GEOARCHive

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I-GEOARCHive provides geoarchaeological data and images (profile photos, thin section scans, microscope photos, layer descriptions, mortar and ceramic samples, etc.) from various archaeological sites.

Project 0838
Locus Ludi database: The Kottabos in the Greek World project image

Locus Ludi database: The Kottabos in the Greek World

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This database aims to provide a benchmark by compilating all representations of kottabos in the Greek world, including descriptions, images and links to other reference databases.

Project 0847
Musiklexikon der Schweiz project image

Musiklexikon der Schweiz

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Das MLS stellt fundierte Information über die AkteurInnen, Institutionen, Orte, Objekte und Phänomene zur Verfügung, die für die Musikgeschichte Schweiz über alle Sparten und Stile relevant sind.

Project 0807
Globalgeschichtliche Perspektiven im Schweizer Geschichtsunterricht project image

Globalgeschichtliche Perspektiven im Schweizer Geschichtsunterricht

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Das Forschungsprojekt liefert empirische Ergebnisse auf breiter Basis zu Potentialen von globalgeschichtlichen Perspektiven im Geschichtsunterricht.

Project 084A
Tonbandsammlung Folkfestival auf der Lenzburg project image

Tonbandsammlung Folkfestival auf der Lenzburg

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Folk music enthusiasts gathered between 1972 and 1980 at the picturesque Lenzburg Castle. Discover the audio heritage of the legendary Lenzburg Folk Festival

Project 082A
Gustave Roud, Complete works project image

Gustave Roud, Complete works

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This database is the accompaniment of the critical edition of Gustave Roud’s work. It hosts the digital facsimiles of Gustave Roud’s archive, which includes manuscripts and printed materials.

Project 0112
WoPoss: A world of possibilities. Modal pathways over an extra-long period of time: the diachrony of modality in the Latin language project image

WoPoss: A world of possibilities. Modal pathways over an extra-long period of time: the diachrony of modality in the Latin language

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The WoPoss project aims at reconstructing the evolution of modal meanings in Latin from the prehistory of the language up to the 7th century CE, through a linguistically annotated, diachronic corpus.

Project 0843
Hieroglyphic Palaeography of the Ptolemaic Temple at Deir el-Medina project image

Hieroglyphic Palaeography of the Ptolemaic Temple at Deir el-Medina

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An online palaeography of hieroglyphs from the Ptolemaic temple of Deir el-Medina

Project 0853