Yn ogystal â dod ynghyd heno i wrando ar bapur gwych Harriett, rydym wedi ‎ymgasglu (heb yn wybod i William) i ddathlu gyrfa ddisglair William Marx a ‎chyfrol hyfryd sydd wedi’i chyhoeddi gan Brepols er clod i William. Felly heb …

Teyrnged i Waith Dr William Marx gan yr Athro Jane Cartwright Read more »

This week’s post is by Sofia Bianchi Mancini, one of our postgraduate research students in Classics at UWTSD Lampeter. My name is Sofia Bianchi Mancini, I am in my final year of MRes in the department of Classics. My research …

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UWTSD undergraduates and Confucius Institute students sitting the HSK Chinese exams.

This is an interview with Duo Luan, one of our Chinese Studies Lecturers at UWTSD. This interview was originally published in CLTalk Issue 13. Duo Luan has been teaching Chinese as a foreign language in the Chinese Studies BA programme at the University …

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Miguel diving at Solent

This blog was written by Adolfo Miguel Martins, PhD student and early stage researcher in Nautical Archaeology at UWTSD Lampeter. Situated in Solent eleven meters below surface lays an 8,000 years an old Mesolithic settlement. The archaeological site comprises in …

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St. David’s College Students, Ex-service Men, 1918-19

This blog was written by Flora McNerney, a UWTSD third-year student in Anthropology and English, who was a member of the team that worked on the material for the exhibition. Flora was the Lampeter Campus Students’ Union President in 2014/15. …

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Mummy head

The blog below was written by UWTSD Senior Lecturer in Egyptian Archaeology and Heritage, Dr Katharina Zinn. There is a dream of anyone working in a museum to find a forgotten object or even an overlooked collection. Amazingly this dream …

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Jacques-Louis David, Antiochus and Stratonica, 1774.

Dr Kyle Erickson of UWTSD Classics has recently published an article, jointly with David Engels of Université Libre de Bruxelles, on ‘Apama and Stratonike – Marriage and Legitimacy’, in the book ‘Seleukid Royal Women’ edited by Altay Coşkun and Alex …

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Prof. Nigel Nayling and other members of the ForSEAdiscovery team preparing to dive that the Bayonnaise shipwreck.

To build ocean-going ships sound timber is needed, the ForSEAdiscovery project asks: Which forests supplied the timber for the construction of ships during the ‘Age of Discovery’? Did the Iberian forests supply the Iberian Empires with the materials to build their …

Archaeology Professor Nigel Nayling heads the ForSEAdiscovery project Read more »