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Faces of Jelena – a short film tells the story of Hungary’s first facial reconstruction of a Bronze Age woman
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In 2003, the graves of 11 individuals from the Early Bronze Age were found in two grave groups at the Balatonkeresztúr-Réti-dűlő site during excavations along the route of motorway M7 in Hungary. One of these graves (no. 13) belonged to a woman aged 35–45 at the time of her death. Her skull was preserved in very good condition, providing the basis for the first facial reconstruction of a Bronze Age woman in Hungary, completed in 2022.
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.
Genetic evidence identifies the southern Urals as a primary source of the 10th-century Hungarians (Magyars)
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A landmark study has recently been published in the prestigious journal Cell. In an international collaboration, the Institute of Archaeogenomics at the ELTE Research Centre for the Humanities (RCH IAG) analysed 120 ancient genomes (complete sets of human genetic information) from the region between Western Siberia and the Volga River. This area had not been previously explored genetically; at the same time, it is of great historical, linguistic, and archaeological importance for understanding the origins and early history of the Hungarians. The study focused on the genetic connections of communities living in and around the Southern Ural Mountains. Using groundbreaking genetic data from the Late Iron Age and Early Middle Ages (300–1000 CE), the researchers identified one of the most significant genetic sources of the Hungarians (Magyars) newly settled in the Carpathian Basin, alongside evidence of continuity in some Uralian populations.
Interdisciplinary research along the Silk Road – forum and conference in Budapest
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The ANSO-MTA Silk Road Forum and the 3rd ATES Open Science Conference is held in Budapest between 9–10 September 2025, organised by the Alliance of National and International Science Organizations for the Belt and Road Regions (ANSO) and the Association for Trans-Eurasia Exchange and Silk-Road Civilization Development (ATES), in cooperation with the Hungarian Academy of Sciences (MTA) and the ELTE Research Centre for the Humanities.
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