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Faculty of Archaeology kicks off celebratory lustrum year13 September 202225 years ago the Faculty of Archaeology at Leiden University was founded. In the academic year of 2022-2023 several lustrum activities will be organis...
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Samatar Botan investigates ancient Aksum with a Mosaic 2.0 grant12 September 2022In July 2022 our alumnus Samatar Botan received the news that he had received the NWO Mosaic 2.0 grant. This grant enables him to start a PhD research...
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Archaeologists in action: stories from the field08 September 2022During the summer, staff and students of the Faculty of Archaeology travel to all parts of the world, initiating or joining fieldwork projects. Read s...
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Meet the Faculty's new Research Policy Adviser: Jimmy Mans07 September 2022Following the retirement of Roswitha Manning, a vacancy arose at Faculty of Archaeology for the role of Research Policy Advisor. We found one in the p...
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Meet the Faculty’s new Student Assessor: Imen el Idrissi05 September 2022After two years in the Faculty Board, Student Assessor Zoë van Litsenburg makes room for a successor per September 1, 2022. Let’s meet the new Student...
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Coring among sheep: investigating a pasture's past24 August 2022It is late June, and on a windy meadow north of Leiden known as the Vrouw Vennepolder a group of archaeology students just hit the last ice age. Consi...
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Archaeological excavations in Romania show life of earliest modern humans in Europe23 August 2022In a new article in the journal Scientific Reports, Leiden archaeologist Wei Chu and colleagues report on recent excavations in Western Romania at the...
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Students from all around the world discover The Hague22 August 2022A day at the beach, games, a visit to an embassy and a pub crawl. The activities at HOPweek help new students get to know not just The Hague but each ...
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In Memoriam: Katharine MacDonald (1976-2022)18 August 2022Our dear colleague and friend Kathy MacDonald passed away unexpectedly on August 9th, 2022, a few days after her 46th birthday. Her sudden passing cam...
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Meet our new colleague Letty ten Harkel: ‘I am interested in what happens when different cultures come together’25 July 2022In August 2022 we welcome our new colleague Dr Letty ten Harkel as Assistant Professor in Roman and Post-Roman Archaeology. For the past ten years she...
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Maritime archaeologist Martijn Manders appointed as Professor of Underwater Archaeology in Leiden20 July 2022Maritime archaeologist Martijn Manders has been appointed professor of Underwater Archaeology and Maritime Cultural Heritage Management at Leiden Univ...
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Throwback to the Archaeological Field School of 2022: ‘Excavating is very rewarding’20 July 2022Back in June, the annual Leiden Archaeology Field School took place in Oss. For a month, every week, a group of 25 first year students gets to learn t...
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Three Leiden PhD candidates awarded Mosaic 2.0 scholarships20 July 2022Three PhD candidates from Leiden University have been awarded a Mosaic 2.0 scholarship for their PhD research. The Dutch Research Council (NWO) Mosaic...
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Meet postdoc Ana Zora Maspoli: ‘I came to Leiden to find a new way to look at the dilemma of Romanisation’12 July 2022Looking for a different approach in the ongoing discussions on the ethereal matter of Romanisation, Ana Zora Maspoli joined Miguel John Versluys’ rese...
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Citizen science project Heritage Quest wins European Heritage Award / Europa Nostra Award 202230 June 2022Gelderland Heritage and Leiden University’s Faculty of Archaeology have won the European Heritage Award / Europa Nostra Award 2022 in the ‘research’ c...