News
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‘New students, tomorrow's world needs you!'Today is the start of EL CID, the first of three introduction weeks at Leiden University. A new influx of students is ready and waiting, eager to get...
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New online Dutch course for international studentsAsking the way to the beach in Scheveningen or buying cheese on the market in Leiden. With the new online Dutch & More language course, prospective in...
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Queen Máxima to open Asian LibraryQueen Máxima will open Leiden University's new Asian Library in a ceremony in the Pieterskerk on 14 September. The Library houses important collection...
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Twentieth anniversary of the Lorentz Center: developing ideas in a scientific bubbleThe 20th anniversary of the Lorentz Center will be celebrated on 28 June 2017 with the opening of an exhibition in the Oude UB. For two decades alread...
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Views on AfricaIn the media, we hear a lot of worrying news from Africa: refugees, attacks, Ebola, starvation, corruption... But Africa is much more than that: it is...
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The garden of Eden is AfricaAmazing discoveries by Jean Jacques Hublin of Early modern Humans in Morocco.
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Archaeologists reconstruct ancient Greek urge to buildAn enormous number of monumental buildings, such as burial tombs, appeared in Mycenaean Greece after 1600 BC. Why did this urge to build come to an ...
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Extraordinary Merovingian cemetery excavated by Leiden UniversityIn the last weeks of May 2017 a team of students, PhD’s and postdocs of Leiden University led by prof. Frans Theuws excavated a small but exclusive ce...
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Field school OssHome sweet home, by Arjan Louwen
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What makes us human? Or modern human?Two Vidi subsidies for Faculty of Archaeology.
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Change in opening hours around Ascension DayMany University buildings will be closed on Thursday 25 and Friday 26 May in connection with Ascension Day.
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Sada Mire selected for the international Hay Festival list of 30 thinkers and philosophersThe Hay Festival brings readers and writers together to share stories and ideas in sustainable events around the world. The festivals inspire, examine...
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Leiden strengthens ties with Latin America and CaribbeanOn 15 May, the ambassadors of 11 Latin American and Caribbean countries were shown the highlights of research at Leiden University Faculty of Science....
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Exploring the opportunities of big data in archaeology‘Big data’ is currently a hot topic and it is extremely relevant for archaeology, as new digital methods and a data explosion are radically changing a...
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Old protein distinguishes bone fragments of NeanderthalsBone remains that are thousands of years old are often too fragmented to be identified. PhD candidate Frido Welker is the first person to be able to d...