Between August 28-31, 2024, the 31st conference of the European Association of Archaeologists was held in Rome, where thousands of participants presented their research in over 300 sessions. In addition to archaeologists, professionals working in all areas of bioarchaeology presented their work, including two researchers from the MTA-RCH Momentum Bioarchaeology Research Group.
The director of our institute, Anna Szécsényi-Nagy, was a guest of Róbert Pálinkás Szüts in Klubrádió's Morning Person show.
"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”.
Within the framework of the Momentum (Lendület) program of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences, the director of our institute, Anna Szécsényi-Nagy's proposal entitled as „Life and Death at the Edge of the Roman Civilization: Complex Bioarchaeological Analysis of Pannonian Communities" has also been awarded a five-year Momentum (Lendület) grant and a new MTA-HUN-REN BTK (HAS-RCH HUN-REN) interdisciplinary research group will be formed in the Institute of Archaeogenomics from December 2023.