165 éve ezen a napon hunyt el kolgyári Császár Ferenc jogtudós, író és műfordító, a magyar mint idegen nyelv oktatástörténetének egyik fontos alakja, a Magyar Tudós Társaság levelező, majd tiszteleti tagja.

Kétségtelenül a belső-ázsiai fémművességi körbe tartozik az a hun üst, amelyhez hasonlóak megtalálhatók már a korábbi évszázadok leletanyagában, s amelyet restaurálva a Magyarságkutató Intézet nevében Prof. dr. Kásler Miklós nyilvános keretek között a mai napon adott vissza Őexcellenciája Sainnyambuu Baatarjavnak, Mongólia magyarországi nagykövetének.  

Published in the daily newspaper Magyar Nemzet, Balázs Ágoston's comprehensive overview entitled “Body and soul of the nation - Hungarians have straightened up after a hundred years of stooping and want to live again" sees the key to the survival of Hungary in the healing of the national soul and the restoration of our national consciousness.

Hungarian daily, Magyar Nemzet reported on the negotiations between Dr Gábor Horváth-Lugossy, Director General of the Institute of Hungarian Research, and Attila Pintér, Consul General in Istanbul, in preparation for the 2024 joint cultural year of the two countries.

An interview with Miklós Makoldi, Director of the Research Centre for Archaeology of our Institute, on the archaeological excavation of the ruined Church of St. Martin was published in the Fóti Hírnök monthly.

"The ruined Church of St Martin at Sikátorpuszta is a real highlight. During the excavation in July, archaeologists found an artefact that surprised them. As Miklós Zsombor Makoldi, Director of the Research Centre for Archaeology at the Institute of Hungarian Research, explained, A GOTHIC CAPSTONE WITH A HANGING PENDANT WAS DISCOVERED, WHICH HAS SO FAR HAD ONLY BEEN FOUND IN PANNONHALMA.

- What have you achieved so far and what will be the future of the church?

- The excavation is nearing its end, it seems that we have reached the former floor level and the plan of the church is already emerging.

- Previously you didn't know what the church looked like?

- We had a drawing of the church from the 19th century, but we doubted its authenticity.

[...]

- Do you now believe that the drawing from the 19th century could be correct?

- Yes, we do: the church is bigger than we first expected when seeing the ruins. Now that most of the walls have been uncovered, you can also see that the entrance of the church faced Sikátorpuszta.

- What makes this church special?

- To begin with, there is very little information about it in the records. For example, we do not know who built it and exactly when. What is certain, however, is that it must have been an important church at some time.
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- What you see in the trench is a Gothic capstone with a hanging member, - explained the director - which has survived in quite good condition. Such a Gothic vertical capstone exists only in one place in the country. It demonstrates that it was a significant site in its day.

- What makes this capstone so special?

- What's exciting is that we found this Gothic capstone fragment in the middle of the nave, which, although broken into pieces, still has two parts. And what makes it special is that it's a capstone with a hanging member, which is very rare in medieval village churches, in fact only the Benedictines in Pannonhalma have one. It is really incredible for us that a church from this period, which is absolutely unknown and barely mentioned in the sources, has a capstone with a pendent member, suggesting that the church may have had important builders once.

[...]

It is very important, nevertheless, to protect this Árpád-era monument from the expansion of the nearby industrial park.
AND WE MUST NOT ONLY PRESERVE IT, WE MUST GIVE IT BACK TO THE CHRISTIAN CHURCH THAT HELD MASSES HERE FOR CENTURIES AND PLANS TO HOLD REGULAR MASSES HERE AGAIN AFTER THE RESTORATION.

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- How do you plan to complete the excavation?

- There are several options, and a decision will have to be made on one of them. The one I am most in favour of is to rebuild a late Árpád style church here using the existing information and based on other churches from that period. In this way we could emphasize the faith and the preserving strength of the Hungarian people."

The full interview is available on the website of Fóti Hírnök. 

Our historian Zsuzsanna Borvendég gave a celebratory interview to Éva Harangozó in the daily newspaper Magyar Nemzet.

Zoltán Babucs, a military historian at the Institute of Hungarian Research, gave a presentation at the commemoration in Pozsony (today: Bratislava, Slovakia) on the imperial reprisals of 1849 and the martyrs of Arad. We quote from a summary by Éva Dunajszky on ma7.sk 

The Institute of Hungarian Research and the Batthyány Society of Professors signed a cooperation agreement. The Institute of Hungarian Research has thus gained a new field of intellectual power (...).

"... Eurasian civilisations adopted these techniques from the steppe peoples, the Scythians and the Huns" - An ancient and unique Hun sacrificial cauldron has been excavated by Hungarian and Mongolian archaeologists.

"... Eurasian civilisations adopted these techniques from the steppe peoples, the Scythians and the Huns" - An ancient and unique Hun sacrificial cauldron has been excavated by Hungarian and Mongolian archaeologists.