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Faculty of Archaeology ranks 4th in QS World University Ranking24 March 2025It is the ninth year in a row that the Faculty of Archaeology is placed in the top ten of archaeological institutes worldwide. The QS World University...
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Leiden archaeologists create open educational resources on agent-based modeling13 June 2024The past two years, Laura van der Knaap and Professor Karsten Lambers worked on creating open teaching materials on agent-based modeling, funded by Er...
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Studying archaeological roads gives insights into connectivity and movement10 June 2024Archaeologist Tuna Kalayci investigates roads in a recent edited book. What happens if we think of roads not only as containers of action but also as ...
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Faculty of Archaeology ranks 5th in QS World University Ranking11 April 2024
It is the eighth year in a row that the Faculty of Archaeology is placed in the top ten of archaeological institutes worldwide. The QS World Universit...
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Karsten Lambers appointed as Professor of Digital and Computational Archaeology12 February 2024In January, Dr Karsten Lambers was appointed as Professor of Digital and Computational Archaeology at Leiden University's Faculty of Archaeology. With...
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Faculty of Archaeology ranks 6th in QS World University Ranking05 April 2023
It is the seventh year in a row that the Faculty of Archaeology is placed in the top ten of archaeological institutes worldwide. The QS World Universi...
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Archaeologist Wouter Verschoof-van der Vaart wins the IALA dissertation award for his doctoral thesis09 March 2023‘I was very happy and honoured that my thesis was recognised as a valuable contribution to the topic of landscape archaeology.’
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Citizen scientists discover more than 1,000 new burial mounds24 January 2023Over the past few years, citizen scientists from the Heritage Quest project have scoured the entire Veluwe and Utrechtse Heuvelrug areas for unknown a...
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Robotics and AI in archaeological theory and practice22 December 2022What can Robotics and AI bring to archaeological theory and practice? In return, how can archaeology contribute to the developments in robotics and AI...
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Faculty of Archaeology ranks 7th in QS World University Ranking08 April 2022
It is the sixth year in a row that the Faculty of Archaeology is placed in the top ten of archaeological institutes worldwide. The QS World University...
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New excavation robot shapes future of archaeology31 March 2022Archaeology has always been at the forefront of innovation. Now, an inventive collaboration between archaeologists Tuna Kalayci and Alex Brandsen brin...
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Researcher develops Google for archaeologists04 February 2022An incredible quantity of archaeological reports are stored in digital archives. If you want to search for information in them, you have to do this ma...
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Angkor region was actually a large Medieval city10 May 2021The Greater Angkor Region in contemporary Cambodia was dramatically more urbanized in the 13th century than previously thought, and home to 700.000 to...
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Meet archaeologist Tuna Kalayci: ‘How can we integrate robots into archaeology?’10 March 2021In the course of 2020 the Faculty of Archaeology was bolstered by some new staff members. Due to the coronavirus situation, sadly, this went for a lar...
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Archaeology in eighth position worldwide in QS World University Rankings 202109 March 2021
It is the fifth year in a row that the Faculty of Archaeology is placed in the top ten of archaeological institutes worldwide. The QS World University...