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ENIGMA at the 94th Annual Meeting of the American Association of Biological Anthropologists
The ENIGMA project had a strong presence at this year’s 94th Annual Meeting of the American...
Publication Alert: First Steps in Applying Tensor Tomography to Archaeological Bone
A small side project I was involved in has just been published as an open access article in the...
IAEA Training School at Elettra – October 29th 2024
Group photo in the experimental hall with the Beamline Scientists and IAEA student participants
ENIGMA Project at MetroArcheo 2024 in Valetta, Malta
Dr Simone Lemmers and Prof Alessia Nava at the entrance of the Conference Venue – the University of Malta
TOSCA 2024 – Workshop Dragonfly ORS and VG STUDIO MAX
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...
ENIGMA Project at the 30th EAA Annual Meeting in Rome
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...
Visiting Krapina – Paying Homage to the Neanderthals
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...
Virtual dental histology at ELETTRA – Successful Beamtime at SYRMEP
(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...
Exciting News: Our First co-authored paper in the MSCA-PF context Accepted for Publication!
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,...
Successful beamtime at BEATS – the Tomography beamline in the Middle East
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...
ENIGMA makes an Appearance at ICAS-EMME 4 conference in Nicosia, Cyprus
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...
