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NWO subsidy for archaeological search engine: ‘There is no physical digging involved!’28 September 2020When you want to analyse big quantities of archaeological data, you run into the issue that searching through excavation reports is extremely time-con...
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Archaeologists find Roman camp near Ermelo17 September 2020Archaeologists and students from Leiden University and local volunteers have found a Roman camp in the woods near Ermelo. The camp is four kilometres ...
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A Roman camp or not? How our archaeologists found the answer17 September 2020Archaeologists from Leiden University find what is clearly an earth wall and ditch structure in the woods near Ermelo. They suspect it may be the rema...
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Meet the student mentors of Archaeology: ‘I like this opportunity to meet new people’16 September 2020All first-year bachelor’s and master’s students at the Faculty of Archaeology have been assigned a student as a mentor to help them find their way aro...
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Digital archaeologist Alex Brandsen featured in Artificial Intelligence dossier10 September 2020
Apps that can precisely identify shards, coins or heel bones: archaeology has embraced artificial intelligence. Alex Brandsen is working on a search e...
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ERC Creative Europe Culture grant for Alexandria: (re)activating common urban imaginaries09 September 2020From 2020 to 2023, Professor Miguel John Versluys and his research group will participate in an international consortium co-funded by the Creative Eur...
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How sustainable does the University want to be by 2030?07 September 2020Leiden University has become more sustainable in the past few years, but it could do better, particularly in the area of teaching and research. A stud...
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Archaeological fieldwork in corona times: professor Marie Soressi's story26 August 2020From July 25th till August 7th, a team led by Professor Marie Soressi went to France and worked at La Grande Roche de Quinçay, a cave site located in ...
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Aris Politopoulos: ‘I use games as a teaching method'19 August 2020In his lectures Aris Politopoulos combines archaeology with video games. He is one of the three nominees for the 2020 LUS Teaching Prize. 'A good teac...
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Archaeological fieldwork in corona times: bachelor's student Jeroen Huizer's story19 August 2020Second year BA Archaeology student Jeroen Huizer decided to participate in an excavation this summer, and he is giving us a peek in doing fieldwork un...
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Marie Kolbenstetter will explore the archaeology of southern Honduras with a NWO subsidy19 August 2020Our master’s alumna Marie Kolbenstetter was recently awarded a NWO subsidy for a PhD in the Humanities. With this funding she will be able to continue...
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Electives of Ancient Near Eastern Studies: ‘You can really get a closer look at the subject matter’03 August 2020Are you interested in ancient Egypt, the rich cultural heritage of Mesopotamia or bliblical Hebrew and Aramaic? Students of all faculties can follow e...
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The ecological footprint of European colonization at the doorway to the Americas16 July 2020Historical figures such as Columbus have returned to the centre of public debate. Much remains to be discovered about his legacy and current impact on...
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Working in the archaeological ceramic lab in times of corona15 July 2020BA 3 student Dasha Derzhavets is one of the first students to be back in the lab at the Faculty of Archaeology. She is conducting experiments in the c...
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More powerful data centre will accelerate research15 July 2020Language evolution, targeted drugs or archaeological interpretation. Researchers are making increasing use of supercomputers that can rapidly process ...