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4000-year-old clay tablets in a hypermodern scannerAncient clay tablets, between 2,500 and 4,000 years old, bearing cuneiform script have been scanned using a micro-CT-scanner at Delft University of Te...
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Prof. Bakels celebrates half-a-century scholarship at Leiden UniversityProf. C. Bakels is an archaeobotanist who devoted most of her career researching farming, its (pre)history and influence on the landscape. Born in 194...
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Heritage project showcased in EU brochureIn the EU brochure 'Creative Europe: rediscovering our cultural heritage' 15 successful heritage projects are presented. Among these projects is NEARC...
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Sarah Schrader to head the Osteoarchaeology labSince August 2017, dr. Sarah Schrader is working at the Faculty of Archaeology in the department of Archaeological Sciences. Her expertise is human os...
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Joanita Vroom investigates Byzantines and Ottomans with Aspasia grantThe Nederlandse Organisatie voor Wetenschappelijk Onderzoek (NWO) has awarded Professor Joanita Vroom with the Aspasia grant of €200,000. She will use...
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Neandertal genome from Les Cottés site sequencedOn March 21 2018, a study was published in Nature, co-authored by Professor M. Soressi from the Faculty of Archaeology of Leiden University, announcin...
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'Stephen Hawking put abstract science on the map'Theoretical physicist Stephen Hawking (76) passed away on 14 March at his home in Cambridge, having been a long-term sufferer of the muscular disease ...
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The stories behind the women's portraitsAn anatomical model of a heart, a mechanical digger or photos of mother and grandmother. Research interests and personal motivations have been given a...
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200 years Archaeology200 years ago, in 1818, Caspar Reuvens was appointed Professor in Archaeology at Leiden University. This was effectively the start of the academic stu...
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Jet Bussemaker: ‘Emotions always run high in discussions on female emancipation'At the Annie Romein-Verschoor Lecture on 8 March, former Minister of Education Jet Bussemaker expressed her surprise at the commotion again raised by ...
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Leiden University appointed extra 25 female professors in 2017Last year Leiden University appointed an extra 25 female professors. With these appointments the Executive Board has increased the percentage of women...
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Fourteen women professors take over the Senate ChamberFourteen women professors are to be given a place in the classic portrait gallery in Leiden University’s Senate Chamber. The portraits will be unveile...
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Rescue excavations in the CaribbeanAlongside the incredible devastation brought by Hurricanes Irma and Maria in the fall of 2017, the storms have had an extremely damaging effect on the...
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Luc Janssens and Thijs van Kolfschoten in National GeographicLeiden PhD candidate and vet Luc Janssens discovered that a dog found at the start of the last century in a grave dating back 14,000 years had been si...
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Archaeology in eighth position in QS World University Rankings 2018It is the third year in a row that the Faculty of Archaeology is ranked the highest in continental Europe. Aside from this the faculty features, as it...