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'I am interested in how we simulate ourselves into the future'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 researchA 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 propertyThe 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 styleThere’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 grantJoanita 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 WoerdFor 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 fameOver 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 chatelaineMarijke 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 archaeologyFrom 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 UniversityLeiden 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 projectThrough the Chastelain-Nobach LUF fund, Classical and Mediterranean archaeologist Tymon de Haas has received a grant for his research on the ecologica...
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Professor Miguel John Versluys joins Supervisory Council of National Museum of AntiquitiesFrom 1 December 2019, Miguel John Versluys, Professor and Chair of Classical & Mediterranean Archaeology at the Faculty of Archaeology, will join the ...
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Webinar Week: reaching out to prospective master's studentsNot all students who are thinking of doing a master’s programme at Leiden University can come to the Master’s Open Day. Hence the first Webinar Week, ...
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Honours students participate in poster presentations at ReuvensdagenOn Friday, November 22, students of the Archaeology Honours track participated in a poster presentation at the national archaeological congress 'De Re...
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No humans needed: Neanderthals possibly responsible for their own extinctionScientists remain puzzled by the sudden extinction of Neanderthals, some 40,000 years ago. New research by scientists from Eindhoven University of Tec...