The Institute of Languages and Cultures of the Mediterranean and the Near East (ILC) is CSIC’s own research institute which has as its fundamental goal the study of languages and cultures of the Mediterranean basin and the Near East over different periods. The fundamental thematic lines of the research carried out in ILC encompass the languages and cultures of the ancient Near East, classical culture of ancient Greece and Rome, along with its continuation in the Byzantine and Neo-Greek world, as well as in the Latin Middle Ages and the Neo-Latin world, biblical culture and the Hebrew language, Spanish-Jewish world and its Sephardic continuation, the Arabic language and Islam, as well as the study of the processes of cultural production and transmission.