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Blogging about the Middle Ages: love magic, face masks and video gamesThree years ago, on 13 October 2017, the Leiden Medievalists Blog was established. In their blogs, Leiden researchers from all disciplines talk about ...
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Hello Leiden. How’s it going? Minister Van Engelshoven pays online working visit to Leiden UniversityTeaching during the corona crisis, the high workload and the challenges faced by the Faculty of humanities. In an online working visit to Leiden Unive...
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What's it like to start studying Archaeology during coronaAlready one month has passed and the Archaeology classes are well underway. So what's it like to actually start your studies during Covid-19? Three fi...
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The enduring impact of Egypt on Western cultureThe material and intellectual presence of Egypt is at the heart of Western culture, religion, and art from Antiquity to the present. In his book ‘Beyo...
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Archaeozoological Lab reorganised and renewed: 'We can now study most of the fauna in Europe'The Laboratory for Archaeozoological Studies underwent a big reorganization and received a great donation from the Institute of Biology this summer. L...
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NWO subsidy for archaeological search engine: ‘There is no physical digging involved!’When 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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Maikel Kuijpers takes an archaeological perspective on the materials that shape our worldMaterials like concrete, steel, plastic and fertiliser shape the world around us, but they’re also extremely polluting. If we want to build a more sus...
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Archaeologists find Roman camp near ErmeloArchaeologists 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 answerArchaeologists 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’All 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 dossier
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 imaginariesFrom 2020 to 2023, Professor Miguel John Versluys and his research group will participate in an international consortium that has just received a larg...
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How sustainable does the University want to be by 2030?Leiden 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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Richard Jansen writes about Oss in Archeologie MagazineThe Faculty of Archaeology has a partnership with Archeologie Magazine, the largest archaeology-themed magazine in the Netherlands, aiming to improve ...
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Archaeological fieldwork in corona times: professor Marie Soressi's storyFrom 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 ...