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Electives of Ancient Near Eastern Studies: ‘You can really get a closer look at the subject matter’03 August 2020Are you interested in ancient Egypt, the rich cultural heritage of Mesopotamia or bliblical Hebrew and Aramaic? Students of all faculties can follow e...
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Working in the archaeological ceramic lab in times of corona15 July 2020BA 3 student Dasha Derzhavets is one of the first students to be back in the lab at the Faculty of Archaeology. She is conducting experiments in the c...
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Archaeology student Grace left a lockdowned Leiden for her home country: ‘We jumped on one of the last remaining tickets’08 June 2020International Archaeology student Grace Alonzo went back to her home country when the coronavirus situation developed. Now she is living at her parent...
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Aris Politopoulos lectures like an Assyrian king: ‘Video lectures need to be ten times more engaging’20 April 2020There are some lecturers who are better equipped to provide remote education than others. And then there is Aris Politopoulos, who already owned profe...
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Rachel Schats is preparing an archaeology course from home: ‘Do what you can and don’t make it yourself too difficult’26 March 2020As a lecturer of a block 4 course, osteoarchaeologist Dr Rachel Schats is preparing to give her education remotely. For this she uses Kaltura, Leiden ...
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The future of experiencing the past11 March 2020The Faculty of Archaeology experiments with innovating their teaching methods, using 3D scans and visualisation technology to enable active learning. ...
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Archaeology students vlog at Castellum Hoge Woerd08 January 2020For the bachelor's course Past and Future, Archaeology students visited Castellum Hoge Woerd (Utrecht), a modern interpretation of the Roman fort that...
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Webinar Week: reaching out to prospective master's students09 December 2019Not all students who are thinking of doing a master’s programme at Leiden University can come to the Master’s Open Day. Hence the first Webinar Week, ...
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Honours students participate in poster presentations at Reuvensdagen06 December 2019On Friday, November 22, students of the Archaeology Honours track participated in a poster presentation at the national archaeological congress 'De Re...
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Leiden University advises students to leave Hong Kong15 November 2019Leiden University is advising its students to leave Hong Kong and return to the Netherlands. This is due to the worsening situation there.
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What do you learn when attending an Open Day?22 October 2019The Open Day of Leiden University, on Saturday, October 19, 2019 was busy, in a pleasant way. More than 12,500 prospective students and supervisors vi...
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Archaeology Open Day: ‘Excavations are cool’14 October 2019‘We’ve come because our granddaughter started studying archaeology here this year. But I’m really interested in archaeology too.’ The Open Day at the ...
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On the road with an International Credit Mobility grant09 September 2019Over the next three years, 92 students and researchers from Leiden University and its partner universities will be strengthening their research and te...
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Fierce protests against Education Minister's redistribution plans02 September 2019Over a thousand researchers and students protested in Leiden on 2 September against the plans to transfer money to science and technology at the expen...
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Innovative online course on Modelling and Simulation in Archaeology02 July 2019Simulation is a formal scientific method used to develop, compare and test hypotheses (models). In the last few decades the use of simulation has incr...