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New results on the history of horse domestication
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New results on the history of horse domestication were published in the current issue of Acta Archaeologica Hungaricae in late 2025. The results confirm that an early horse lineage—widespread prior to the emergence of modern domestic horses—survived into the Middle Bronze Age in the Carpathian Basin. The study was conducted as part of a joint research programme of the ELTE RCH Institute of Archaeogenomics and the MTA–ELTE RCH Momentum BASES Research Group, which investigates the history of horses in the 3rd and 2nd millennia BCE.
Dániel Gerber among the winners of the Danubius Young Scientist Award 2025
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This year, among the nominees from Hungary, Dániel Gerber, a research fellow at our institute, received the Danubius Young Scientist Award, an honor granted by the Vienna-based Institute for the Danube Region and Central Europe (IDM) and the Austrian Federal Ministry for Women, Science and Research.
Domestic and International Conferences – October–November 2025
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Over the past two months, researchers from the Institute of Archaeogenomics have presented their current and exciting findings at numerous scientific conferences both in Hungary and abroad. In this summary, we provide an overview of the talks delivered.
Murder in cold blood? Forensic and bioarchaeological identification of the skeletal remains of Béla, Duke of Macsó
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An international project led by Hungarian researchers has successfully identified the remains of Duke Béla, the Ban of Macsó, a member of the Árpád and Rurik dynasties. During the research coordinated by Tamás Hajdu (Department of Anthropology, Faculty of Sciences, Eötvös Loránd University (ELTE TTK)), Anna Szécsényi-Nagy and Noémi Borbély from the Institute of Archaeogenomics, ELTE RCH were responsible for the genetic analyses. The investigations have answered a century-old archaeological question. The results clearly illustrate how effectively historical data can be verified and past violent deaths can be reconstructed in unprecedented detail through the cooperation of the humanities and the natural sciences. The new study has been published in the prestigious forensic journal Forensic Science International: Genetics.
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