Bea Szeifert, a research fellow and scientific secretary at our institute, as a state scholarship holder of the Genetics Doctoral Program of the Biology Doctoral School at the Faculty of Science, Eötvös Loránd University (ELTE), submitted her doctoral dissertation titled "Archaeogenetic Analysis of Human Skeletal Material from Volga-Ural Region Cemeteries Associated with Early Hungarians."

On May 4, 2024, the exhibition "Kings, Saints, Monasteries: The World of Early Benedictines in Hungary in Light of the Latest Scientific Research" opened at the Benedictine Abbey of Tihany.

"The conference titled "The Transformation of Europe in the Third Millennium BC" took place in Budapest from April 24 to 27, 2024. The aim of the meeting was to summarize the exponentially increased quantity and quality of knowledge spanning various fields of science, including archaeology, anthropology, genetics/genomics, linguistics, and other biological and environmental sciences, through inspiring dialogue. Internationally recognized invited speakers and the poster session provided a comprehensive insight into the history of the third millennium BC, which brought significant changes to prehistoric Europe.

Led by researchers from the Eötvös Loránd University and the Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology in Leipzig, the study that reveals the patterns of kinship organization in Avar society (6th-9th century AD) was published in the scientific journal Nature.

On April 9, 2024, Mende Balázs Gusztáv, deputy director of our institute, delivered a presentation titled "Hungarian Prehistory and the Image of the Hungarians. What Can Archaeogenomics Contribute?" at the meeting of the Specialist Policy Working Group of the Forum of Hungarian Representatives from the Carpathian Basin (KMKF).

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).