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Egyptian antiquities ..in a country house in Bulac From Views in Egypt by Luigi Mayer. 1801.

A game of stones – how Cambridge acquired a cast of the Rosetta Stone

Posted on 7 December 2022 by Catherine Ansorge

Exactly two hundred years ago, in 1822, the French scholar Jean-Francois Champollion (1790–1832) succeeded in his attempts to decipher the hieroglyphic text of the famous Rosetta […]

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Anniversaries, Archives, Cambridge University history, Collectors and collecting, Near and Middle Eastern, Special Collections, Travel

Polar exploration

Posted on 23 February 2022 by John C.

Work is continuing in the Royal Commonwealth Society Library department to catalogue its collection of nineteenth- and early twentieth-century pamphlets and magazine articles. The latest volume to […]

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Photographs, Royal Commonwealth Society, Special Collections, Travel, World War Two
Chronology. Or.1879

A unique treasure: Johann Wansleben’s Ethiopic notes and letters

Posted on 9 February 2022 by Catherine Ansorge

The manuscripts written in the Ethiopic language held in Cambridge University Library number fewer than seventy volumes in all, and for the most part, these […]

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Collectors and collecting, Manuscripts, Near and Middle Eastern, Rare Books, Special Collections, Travel

A Journey in Isolation: A Postcard Travelogue

Posted on 27 April 2020 by Ian Pittock

“Today’s journey with the Map Department’s postcard collection…” or words to this effect have been a welcome companion as I’ve Tweeted my progress through several […]

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Architecture, Archives, Cambridge Digital Library, Map Department, Maps, Photographs, Special Collections, Travel, Uncategorized

Help for all: alms-giving in 17th century Ely

Posted on 24 September 2019 by Sian Collins

A family history enquiry recently led me to a fascinating document in the Ely Dean and Chapter (EDC) collection in the Department of Archives and […]

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Archives, Manuscripts, Special Collections, Travel
Landcape

Giovanni Belzoni and his ‘Book of breathings’

Posted on 6 September 2019 by Catherine Ansorge

In Ancient Egyptian culture, matters relating to death and the afterlife were of great significance, as both the body and the soul were believed to […]

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Collectors and collecting, Library history, Manuscripts, Near and Middle Eastern, Papyrus, Special Collections, Travel

Imagining Islands: Images of Island Exploration in Early Modern Travel Narratives

Posted on 24 June 2019 by Special Collections

A guest post by Lauren Killingsworth, whose exhibition “Imagining Islands” can be viewed in the Library Entrance Hall from Monday 24th June to Saturday 27th […]

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Anniversaries, Exhibitions, Maps, Rare Books, Travel

Notebooks from the Steppe: William Bateson’s research trip to Central Asia, 1886-1887

Posted on 10 May 2019 by Dr Emma Saunders

To mark the digitisation of the William Bateson Archive and Bateson-Punnett Genetics Notebooks on Cambridge Digital Library, we are delighted to present a guest post […]

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Archives, Cambridge Digital Library, Digitisation, Science, Travel

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