News
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A DANS KDP grant for ‘Mapping historical Leiden’-phase 2 03 February 2016
Second phase of mapping historical Leiden project made possible by DANS Kleine Data funding.
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Come to the qualifying round of Famelab on 16 February in Leiden 02 February 2016
Which two scientists will present their research best in three minutes? It could be the one with the most supporters.
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Entrepreneurial students who care about society 02 February 2016
Students of the minor in Innovation, Cocreation and Global Impact present their idealistic projects. Watch the film!
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‘Be open to other cultures’ 26 January 2016
This week more than 400 international students are starting their study programme in Leiden or The Hague. Why did they choose to study here? And what ...
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Skeleton research provides insight into culture of Caribbean Indians 21 January 2016
Archaeologist Hayley Mickleburgh studies how bodies decompose. This helps with the reconstruction of changes in the burial rituals of Caribbean Indians.
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LGA symposium 16 January 2016
Saturday January 16, 2016, the Faculty of Archaeology opened its doors to welcome over 100 archaeology and living archaeology enthusiasts from all ove...
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Pre-Neanderthalers could handle complex techniques 16 December 2015
An international team of researchers including Leiden archaeologists has produced convincing evidence that 300,000 years ago pre-Neanderthal people ha...
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Researched to the bone 12 December 2015
Symposium on the extraordinary excavations at Middenbeemster
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'Dionysus never looked so beautiful' 10 December 2015
The renovated National Museum of Antiquities will re-open for the public on 15 December. Conservator Ruurd Halbertsma, Leiden Professor of Archaeology...
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The buried ‘towers’ of Angkor Wat 09 December 2015
Just behind the entry gate of Angkor Wat, known as Gopura 4 West, through which every year millions of tourists enter the most iconic temple of the UN...
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NEXUS1492 study on ancient human microbiomes published in Nature Scientific Reports 16 November 2015
An international team of researchers, involving members from the ERC Synergy project NEXUS 1492 based at the Leiden University, the Universities of Ok...
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Digital Archaeology 04 November 2015
New name of the Computer Applications group
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Bronze Age Bling 15 October 2015
In January 2015, during an excavation ahead of a road-building project in the west of the Netherlands, archaeologists from the Faculty of Archaeology ...
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Anatomically modern humans reached China well before settling in Europe 15 October 2015
In Nature researchers at Leiden University and Utrecht University show how 47 teeth from Southern China indicate that anatomically modern humans where...
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University of Chicago Press Journals Continue to Earn Top Impact Factor Rankings 14 October 2015
According to Thomson Reuters’ 2014 Journal Citation Reports® (JCR) and the Washington & Lee University School of Law 2014 Journal Rankings, 22 journal...