Professor Peter Bell is a pioneer in the fields of art history and machine vision. His research will help improve our understanding of cultural heritage, and reflects contemporary discussions about AI bias.
Buenos Aires, Mumbai, Shanghai: A project in art history shows that the modern art movement was a global phenomenon and features virtual rambles in the cities where exiled artists found new inspiration.
Researchers at the new Center for Philology and Digitality aim to bridge the gap between the humanities, computer science, and the digital humanities.
Researchers at the University of Bamberg are exploring and enlivening the architecture of the past through cutting-edge technology.
What relevance do Islamic artefacts have for contemporary Islamic cultural heritage? This question underpins the study of Islamic Art and Archaeology.
Theological findings on apocryphal writings: Could they foster conflict resolution? Yes they could, say scholars at the Regensburg Centre for Advanced Studies Beyond Canon_.
Professor Grischa Vercamer is the new Heisenberg Professor at the University of Passau for the History of Eastern and Central European Cultures in the Late Middle Ages and Early Modern Period. In his research, he aims to expand our understanding of the representation of the rule of princes in the late Middle Ages.
SNSB and LMU Paleontologists identify a new species of predatory dinosaur from the Cretaceous period in North Africa, around 95 million years old. What makes this discovery so special is that the original fossil from Egypt was completely destroyed 80 years ago, during World War II. For their work, the researchers analyzed previously unknown archival photographs of the dinosaur skeleton from the period before 1944. The findings are published in the scientific journal PLoS ONE.
Together with Egyptian conservators a team of the University of Würzburg has discovered traces of gold leaf, remnants of the colourful paintings and ancient graffiti in the temple of Edfu.
The German Research Foundation (DFG) is funding an interdisciplinary research project at the University of Regensburg (UR) for another three years: It will focus on "corruption thinking" in Orthodox Christianity.