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.

Molecular biologist Chen Kozulin will begin work as a member of the MTA-RCH Momentum Bioarchaeolgy Research Group in January 2026, after successfully applying for the Momentum MSCA Postdoctoral Fellowship Programme. Bringing  expertise with cutting-edge molecular biology technologies and biomedical industry experience, Chen’s next challenge will venture into the realm of complex bioinformatic analyses.

The 11th International Symposium on Biomolecular Archaeology, organised by the International Society for Biomolecular Archaeology (ISBA), was held in Torino, Italy, between 26–29 August 2025. This year, more than 570 researchers attended the biennial international conference. The results of ongoing research at the Institue of Archaeogenomics were presented by six of our colleagues through oral and poster presentations.

Under the leadership of Anna Szécsényi-Nagy (HUN-REN Institute of Archaeogenomics) and Zsuzsanna Siklósi (MTA-ELTE “Lendület” Innovation Research Group), we have published a new archaeogenetic study on the populations of the Great Hungarian Plain in the Neolithic and Copper Age.

On May 13, 2025, in the framework of a joint book launch at the HUN-REN RCH Institute of Archaeology in Budapest, the first two volumes of the international monograph series Confinia et Horizontes, edited by Eszter Bánffy and Alexander Gramsch, were presented.

A new study from our institute provides a significant step towards elucidating the genetic narrative of the Persian Plateau during the prehistoric and historic periods.

Anna Szécsényi‑Nagy will give a lecture on the morning of May 19, organized by the HEAS (Human Evolution and Archaeological Sciences) Research Network at the University of Vienna.

The HistoGenes ERC Synergy project held its annual plenary meeting from 14 to 17 April this year at Castle Ringberg in Bavaria. As the project nears completion, the aim of the meeting was to discuss the tasks for its final year.