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Holding the (colonial) fort in times of gentrification 05 March 2020
On the south coast of Sri Lanka is a colonial fort. Since it became a world heritage site, the fortified town of Galle has suddenly become a major tou...
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Vici grants for three Leiden researchers 20 February 2020
Three Leiden researchers will each receive a Vici grant of 1.5m euros. They are historian Cátia Antunes, cell biologist Dennis Claessen and archaeolog...
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Garenmarket: woven into the fabric of Leiden 17 February 2020
From cloth to serge and from ‘frame lands’ to a wool factory. Archaeologist and historian Roos van Oosten was pleasantly surprised by what she found o...
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Ian Simpson’s Leiden Experience: ‘Engaging with heritage can be a matter of cultural survival’ 12 February 2020
Ian Simpson is a relatively new face at the Faculty of Archaeology. Starting as an assistant professor in the Heritage and Society department in 2018,...
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'I am interested in how we simulate ourselves into the future' 04 February 2020
It is a known trait in humans to anchor innovations in the past, so as to make new developments easier to accept. It is an aspect of humanity that can...
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Archaeology thanks to computer-based research 04 February 2020
A mix of data research, artificial intelligence and archaeology led to lively discussions on 31 January. On that day the unique event 'AI & Data Scien...
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Angels for sale: retrieving looted cultural property 27 January 2020
The illicit trade in stolen cultural property is booming. Countless works of art and antiquities will be lost if we don’t do more to stop this. This i...
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Housebuilding prehistoric style 21 January 2020
There’s a Stone Age house at Broekpolder, near the city of Vlaardingen. It wasn’t built by prehistoric people but by modern archaeologists from Leiden...
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Building a Byzantine and Ottoman Data Atlas with a DANS grant 16 January 2020
Joanita Vroom, Professor Archaeology of Medieval and Early Modern Eurasia at the Faculty of Archaeology, has again received a DANS Klein DataProject (...
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Archaeology students vlog at Castellum Hoge Woerd 08 January 2020
For the bachelor's course Past and Future, Archaeology students visited Castellum Hoge Woerd (Utrecht), a modern interpretation of the Roman fort that...
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2019 Hall of fame 07 January 2020
Over the past year, many of our staff and students have won prizes, been awarded a substantial grant or been appointed to an academic association or a...
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From archaeologist to chatelaine 19 December 2019
Marijke Brouwer started as an archaeologist, excavating Iron Age settlements in the Dutch polder regions. Today she is the director of medieval Huis B...
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Exhibition ‘Art-chaeology’ presents artworks inspired by archaeology 13 December 2019
From painted pottery to tattooed mummies, art has always been essential in human culture. Exploring the human past, archaeologists study art in the wi...
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Relatively large number of female professors at Leiden University 12 December 2019
Leiden has the second-highest percentage of female professors of all the Dutch universities. These are the results of the annual Women Professors Moni...
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Chastelain-Nobach grant allows Tymon de Haas to enlarge Roman expansion research project 12 December 2019
Through the Chastelain-Nobach LUF fund, Classical and Mediterranean archaeologist Tymon de Haas has received a grant for his research on the ecologica...