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Explore cutting-edge humanities research projects hosted on our platform. Each project represents a unique contribution to Swiss cultural heritage and academic knowledge.
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Beyond the Text. New Funerary Compositions from the Graeco-Roman Period: Textualities and Archaeology in Thebes
Philological and archaeological project exploring the emergence and evolution of the funerary literature of the Graeco-Roman Period
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Der späte Nietzsche. Digitale Manuskriptedition
The digital edition project "Der späte Nietzsche" (The Late Nietzsche) publishes Friedrich Nietzsche's late estate digitally congruent to the manuscripts.

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Mapping the Scriptures in Western Sephardic Literature
Studies the role of the Bible in Spanish and Portuguese Jewish communities of the Western Sephardic diaspora (1550–1800), combining literary and historical research with digital humanities methods.

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Textures of Sacred Scripture
Textures of Sacred Scripture. Materials and Semantics of Sacred Book Ornament in the Western Middle Ages, 780-1300

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Tall al-Hamidiya Online
The Swiss excavations at Tall al-Hamidiya (NE Syria) revealed a 245-ha Late Bronze Age city. Architecture and texts make it likely that the site was Taidu, the royal residence of the Mitanni empire.

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I-GEOARCHive
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.

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L’epistolario di Ugo Foscolo: catalogo
The catalogue of the Foscolo epistolary contains the data, metadata and images relating to the letters, documents, witnesses, holding institutions and editions of the letters.

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Bildung in Zahlen (Education by numbers)
Annotated historical statistics on the development and use of cantonal education programmes and the vocational education and training system in Switzerland in the 19th and 20th centuries.

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Rome in the Early Middle Ages: Arts and Culture
The project addresses the visual culture of the city of Rome (Vth-XIth ct.) by means of an interdisciplinary approach (art history, architecture, archaeology archaeometry, liturgy, epigraphy).

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Canon of solar eclipses from 2501 BCE to 1000 CE
When did the Sun darken in antiquity? Discover calculated solar eclipses and their traces in ancient historical sources.

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Annotating Media of Bruno Manser
Bruno Manser has left a variety of media in which he documented the nomadic life of the Penan. The project shows and annotates these documents.

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Interactive Historical Atlas of the Disciplines
The Interactive Historical Atlas of the Disciplines aims to map data related to the history of academic disciplines and provides tools to visualize the evolution of disciplinary borders over time.