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Group photo in the experimental hall with the Beamline Scientists and IAEA student participants

Dr Simone Lemmers and Prof Alessia Nava at the entrance of the Conference Venue – the University of Malta

Kicking off the Academic Year with Tomography workshops at TOSCA 2024 in London What better way to start the new academic year than with a quick trip to London? The ENIGMA Principal Investigator (PI) joined the final day of the TOSCA 2024 conference—Tomography for...

From 28-31 August 2024, the 30th Annual Meeting of the European Association of Archaeologists (EAA) took place in the heart of history itself—Rome, Italy. Of course, ENIGMA project members were there, actively participating in this exciting event! Hosted by Sapienza...

Since the core material from the ENIGMA project comes from the site of Krapina, how could we not visit this place? As ENIGMA is stationed in Trieste, right on the border with Slovenia, a trip to Krapina is just a few hours' drive away. So, on one of these balmy, hot...

(Positioning the sample correctly in front of the beam (Left) is crucial to get the right area in the field of view (Right)) At the end of the current Beamtime season, we had an exciting beamtime allocation to study ancient human teeth with Synchrotron Radiation Micro...

We are thrilled to announce that our first article under the MSCA-PF project has been accepted for publication in the journal Neuroscience and Biobehavioral Reviews! In December, Prof. Alessia Nava, the supervisor at one of the ENIGMA secondment host institutes,...

After much preparation and a long travel of the samples from Cyprus to the UK, Ireland, Paris, back to Cyprus, to Italy, our prehistoric bone samples have now made their landing in Jordan! As we speak, we are finishing up the high resolution virtual palaeohistology...

One of the ENIGMA objectives is how Synchrotron Radiation and Virtual Bone histology can be used to examine the preservation status of archaeological bone. And for this, the ENIGMA PI has teamed up with the ARETI project PI, Anna Spyrou from the Cyprus Institute! Dr...