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08DEC 2025
FAU news
Replicas, repairs, testing – Plenty to do in the Roman Center
FAU Professor of Ancient History Boris Dreyer and his team are preparing their Roman replicas for the coming year There’s plenty to do in the Roman Center in Gunzenhausen on the shores of Altmühlsee lake, even in winter, and time is running out. In February 2026, the renowned coach expert and collector Jörg Wildung will […]
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13OCT 2025
FAU news
FAU’s Roman boat: Rowing in order to learn something about yourself
Interdisciplinary FAU project uses Roman boat to work with young people As the F.A.N., one of Friedrich-Alexander-Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg’s Roman vessels, crossed the Altmühlsee lake at the beginning of August, the crew was not made up of the team that usually sits at the oars of the replica boat. Rather, on that day, the crew of […]
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01OCT 2025
FAU news
Roman boats at FAU: A stop off and a launch
A new FAU Roman boat is launched on the Altmühlsee lake and the Danuvia alacris returns from the Danube for repairs After spending three years traveling on the Danube, the Danuvia alacris, which is Friedrich-Alexander-Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg’s second Roman vessel, has now returned for a seven month stay at the boatyard in Schlungenhof at Altmühlsee lake […]
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20MAY 2025
FAU news
Fit for the road: Celtic wagon reconstructed
Boris Dreyer and his team have completed their next reconstruction project Original Celtic wagons or reconstructions can be admired not only in museums and documentaries but also at the university. A team led by Prof. Dr. Boris Dreyer, Professor of Ancient History at Friedrich-Alexander-Universität-Erlangen-Nürnberg (FAU), has fully reconstructed a single-axle Celtic wagon based on the […]
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01JUL 2022
Römerboot
In at the deep end
On Sunday, June 26, it was finally time: the second FAU Roman boat, the Danuvina alacris, was launched after a construction phase lasting nearly one and a half years. At Seezentrum Schlungenhof at the Altmühlsee, a crowd gathered to see the project manager and professor of ancient history at FAU, Prof. Dr. Boris Dreyer, christen […]
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