In the media
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Archaeologist Hayley Mickleburgh guest at talkshow RTL Late Night23 January 2017On Thursday January 19, 2017, Hayley Mickleburgh was invited to speak at the Dutch talkshow RTL Late Night. Here she talked about her research on so c...
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Archaeologist Roos van Oosten in Quest Historie16 January 2017Roos van Oosten's research on medieval cesspits stood on the basis of an article on this subject in Quest Historie, a Dutch magazine about history.
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Researchers find paw of Dutch bear20 December 2016Researchers from Leiden and Groningen have found a fossilised paw of one of the last Dutch brown bears. They made their discovery in the water supply ...
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Research on Jordan's Black Desert covered in the media28 November 2016The faculty's research on the ancient rock art found in Jordan's Black Desert has recently been covered by several news and science websites.
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'A Disney-version of Nimrud does not bring back history'21 November 2016The Iraqi archaeological site of Nimrud was recently recaptured from IS. The site has been severely damaged. The question now is, what to do with it? ...
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‘How much damage has Palmyra actually suffered?'31 March 2016Peter Akkermans, Professor of Archaeology of the Middle East, cannot say for certain how much damage the destruction by IS has caused in Palmyra.
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2009 Co-operation between Palestine and Leiden Archaeology renewed09 June 2009On 8 June the Faculty of Archaeology and the Department of Antiquity and Cultural Heritage (DACH) of the Palestine Ministry of Tourism and Antiquity s...