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Genner Llanes-Ortiz’s Leiden Experience: ‘Indigenous stories contain knowledge from deep past’Back in 2016, Genner Llanes-Ortiz joined the Faculty of Archaeology as an assistant professor in the Heritage of Indigenous Peoples research group. Ge...
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'Eastern Desert tombs reflect successful culture adapted to harsh environment’The Jordan Times interviewed professor Peter Akkermans about this research on ancient tombs in Jordan's Eastern Desert. “The evidence of this flourish...
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Neolithic house goes up in flamesLeiden archaeologists have set fire to a reconstructed Neolithic house in Horsterwold: all in the name of science. Studying the remains will help them...
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Erasmus+ grant for project on heritage as bridge between Academy and SocietyTogether with four European partner universities heritage specialist Dr Monique van den Dries has been granted an Erasmus+ project (EU-CUL) by the Eur...
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Record number of visitors to Bachelor's Open Day: ‘My mum misses me already’What can you expect from studying in Leiden or The Hague? Which programme should you choose? Should you join a student association and will you need t...
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New documentary “The Future is Handmade” reflects on value of craftThe documentary invites us to consider the question of what we consider valuable knowledge. “We need to realise that doing and thinking are intertwine...
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Building an excavation report search engine with a Digital Humanities grantPhD candidate Alex Brandsen, working in the Digital Archaeology research group has recently received a grant from the Leiden University Centre for Dig...
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Laura van Broekhoven: ‘For me, it’s about the stories and who’s telling them’Laura van Broekhoven always knew she wanted to study archaeology, and that’s exactly what she did. Now this Leiden alumna is director of the Pitt Rive...
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Archaeologist helps develop board game on European prehistoryIn the new board game Epoch – Early Inventors you explore the prehistoric landscape. You gather food and raw material to develop tools and skills, and...
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Dr Andrew Sorensen wins Tübingen Prize for Older Prehistory and Quaternary EcologyAndrew Sorensen received the award for his work on the origins of fire-making, especially for his dissertation "Beyond Prometheus: Pursuing the origin...
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Wanted: research questions for citizen scienceHow many species of butterfly are living in my garden? Do I recognise the Leiden dialect? What is the air quality like in my area? Do you have a quest...
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Giacomo Fontana wins thesis prize with 'Seeking tombs from space'The Netherlands Institute for the Near East (NINO) annually awards the best theses on the Ancient Near East. The 2018 award went to archaeology studen...
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Leiden University celebrates 444th birthday with residents of Leiden and The HagueLeiden University celebrated its 444th anniversary with a historical procession on 8 February. It celebrated this year’s Dies Natalis in time-honoured...
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A real professor in front of the classA lesson about aerodynamics from Vice-Rector Hester Bijl, about child rights by UNICEF professor Ton Liefaard, or about muscles by LUMC professor Ann...
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The interplay of cultures and technologies investigated in successful Lorentz WorkshopIn the week of 14 to 18 January the Lorentz workshop 'Intersecting Worlds. The Interplay of Cultures and Technology' took place at the Lorentz Center ...