On April 9th, 2024, a delegation from the Chinese Academy of Sciences, Lanzhou University and ATES (Association for Trans-Eurasia Exchange and Silk-Road Civilization Development) will arrive at the HUN-REN Research Centre for the Humanities.

The director of our institute, Anna Szécsényi-Nagy, was a guest of Róbert Pálinkás Szüts in Klubrádió's Morning Person show.

The family crypt in the middle of the main nave in the St. James Church on the historic main square of Kőszeg was in a highly disturbed state, meaning the bones were not lying in anatomical order. The bones selected for genetic testing were sampled by the employees of the Budapest-based Institute of Archaeogenomics  (HUN-REN Research Centre for theHumanities).

"The extensive Hungarian Pannonia research may finally reveal what the Romans gave us" - a longer article about our institute's new Momentum project was published on qubit.hu.

On September 26, 2023, the official announcement of the results of the MTA's Momentum Grant (MTA Lendület Pályázat) took place, where the winning applicants briefly presented their research projects. Among them was Anna Szécsényi-Nagy, the director of our institute outlined the interdisciplinary research plans for the emerging Momentum Bioarchaeology Research Group's project titled "Life and Death at the Edge of the Roman Civilization: Complex Bioarchaeological Analysis of Pannonian Communities”.

The International Society for Biomolecular Archeology (ISBA) organized the 10^th ISBA conference between the 13-15^th of September in Tartu, Estonia. Anna Szécsényi-Nagy, our director and five colleagues of the Institute of Archaeogenomics participated in one of the most prestigious events in the scientific field with a lecture and four posters.

 Three researchers from the Institute of Archaeogenomics, Anna Szécsényi-Nagy, Balázs Mende, and Balázs Gyuris, participated in the ERC Histogenes Plenary Meeting 2023 conference held between 9-12th of October. The event featured the latest results of collaborative research groups in the field of the early Middle Ages. Balázs Gyuris, representing our institute, presented the most recent genetic findings from the Kölked Feketekapu site.

In 2003-2004, excavations on the outskirts of Balatonkeresztúr along the M7 motorway, led by Szilvia Fábián, revealed Bronze Age graves at a multi-stage site. In cooperation with the research program of the Momentum Mobility Research Group of the HUN-REN RCH Institute of Archaeology led by Viktória Kiss, the human remains from the graves were genetically analyzed by the researchers of the HUN-REN RCH Institute of Archaeogenomics. The results have recently been published in the Oxford Academic Journal of Molecular Biology and Evolution by Dániel Gerber et al.