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  • From Crete to China

    The Institute is proud to announce the first volume of series Medicine in the Medieval Mediterranean created and edited by Alain Touwaide: Chryssi BOURBOU, Health and Disease in Byzantine Crete (7th-12th centuries AD). Farnham, and Burlington, VT: Ashgate...
  • Archeology and Ancient Books

    From the most ancient trace currently known of a domesticated cat found in Cypriot excavations to richly illustrated manuscripts from Belgium and the Netherlands, a world tour of exhibitions. ...
  • The Next Generation

    Alain Touwaide will be a Visiting Professor for the whole month of March 2011 at the University of Victoria, Victoria, BC, Canada. Taking advantage of the proximity, he has been invited by the Dept. of Classical, Near Eastern and Religious Studies at the ...
  • Honors and Collaborations

    Alain Touwaide has been appointed Fellow of the Royal Society of Medicine and Emanuela Appetiti is now a member of the Advisor Board of the World History of Science Online - Databases of Bibliographical and archival sources WHSO, established to preserve a...
  • Inside and Outside

    On Thursday, February 10th, 2011, 6:45pm to 8:30pm, Alain Touwaide will present a seminar for the Smithsonian Resident Associates Program entitled History of the Book: Papyrus to E-Book in only 4,000 years. ...
  • Archeology of Plants

    Our research program on DNA analysis of fragments of ancient medicines found in a shipwreck that sunk off the coast of Tuscany has been selected among the 100 best science stories of 2010 by Discover magazine! ...

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