News
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Magic moments at Museum Night 20 May 2019
Leiden University opened its doors on Leiden Museum Night, with a whole host of things to see and do at the Academy Building, Hortus botanicus and Old...
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Preserve burial mounds from the comfort of your own home 10 May 2019
The new Erfgoed Gezocht/Heritage Quest website means you can play armchair detective and hunt for undiscovered burial mounds in the Veluwe. This will ...
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New Van Steenis exhibition: What is Archaeology for YOU? 09 May 2019
Starting on Thursday 16 May 2019, the Faculty of Archaeology features a new mini exhibition, ‘Archaeology&ME’. Ten showcases address the public’s conn...
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Exploring 3D technology in pottery studies: ‘It is the future’ 06 May 2019
In the depots of the Faculty of Archaeology, many artifacts, accumulated after decades of fieldwork across the world, are stored. A new project, the L...
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Amanda Henry’s Leiden Experience: ‘I want to know why our ancestors made certain choices’ 03 May 2019
Two years ago, Amanda Henry joined the Faculty of Archaeology’s Archaeological Sciences department. She investigates diet and human evolution, with a ...
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Sword fighting in the name of science 03 May 2019
Archaeologists from Leiden University cast replicas of Bronze Age European swords and used them in simulated fights. They wanted to find out more abou...
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800 year old mystery of ancient bone disease solved 30 April 2019
Scientific research at the molecular level on a collection of medieval skeletons from Norton Priory in Cheshire, United Kingdom, could help rewrite hi...
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LUF Grant for Natalia Donner for archaeological research at Darien Gap 18 April 2019
Archaeologist Natalia Donner has been awarded a grant of €5,000 from the Bakels Fonds for her research Bridging the Gap: a historical ecological appro...
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Daily grind: the biography of a stone axe 18 April 2019
Tom Breukel analysed some 250 stone axes from the Caribbean and reconstructed their biographies. This increases our knowledge of production and trade ...
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Podcast: A plunge into the cesspits of Leiden 15 April 2019
Archaeologist Roos van Oosten is studying Leiden's medieval cesspits. And on the basis of her work she reaches a surprising conclusion: the Middle Age...
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Anita Casarotto receives LUF grant for unlocking Mediterranean legacy survey data 12 April 2019
Mediterranean archaeologist Dr Anita Casarotto has been awarded a grant of € 5,800 from the Byvanck Fonds for her research on unlocking important data...
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‘Archaeology is rooting around between the artefact and the person’ 08 April 2019
‘Archeologists don’t dig up explanations, let alone certainties,’ says Joanita Vroom, Professor of Archaeology of Medieval and Early Modern Eurasia. ‘...
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Tymon de Haas receives LUF grant for research on the ecological impact of Roman expansion 04 April 2019
Through the Byvanck Fund, Classical Mediterranean archaeologist Tymon de Haas has received a grant of €6,350 for his research on the ecological impact...
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How a very international archaeologist was born 03 April 2019
From mandrill teeth to the microstructure of bones: archaeology alumna Simone Lemmers (31) is determined to reveal the past by studying old remains. H...
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Free symposium reveals surprising uses of AI 26 March 2019
Artificial Intelligence (AI) can help humans in many different ways: from customised medicine and self-driving cars to preserving our cultural heritag...