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Heritage specialist Mariana de Campos Françozo interviewed by EURAXESSEURAXESS asked Mariana de Campos Françozo about her current research conducted with an ERC Starting Grant. "Perhaps the most important benefit of the ...
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Subsidy for digitalisation of Tell Deir Alla fieldworkThe Data Archiving and Networked Services (DANS) accepted the request for subsidy to digitise the archive of the archaeological fieldwork at Tell Deir...
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Archaeology students explore visual culture with artworksIn a creative assignment as a part of the bachelor's course Visual Culture, students explored the impact and complexity of visual culture by means of ...
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Exhibition Archaeology&ME at Leiden Central StationWhat triggers archaeology in you? Over 300 people show their answer in the travelling, pop-up exhibition ‘Archaeology&ME’, which can be visited at Lei...
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New Faculty Board: a focus on communityThe Executive Board of Leiden University has appointed the new Board for the Faculty of Archaeology. Read more about their plans for the future of the...
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National Museum of Antiquities: 200-year partnership with Leiden UniversityFrom Caspar Reuvens to the royal grave in Oss, and from ancient images in the Hortus to a table from Naturalis. The National Museum of Antiquities is ...
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Leiden archaeologist discovers unique ancient horse grave in SudanA unique archeological find near Tombos in Northern Sudan. Archaeologist Sarah Schrader from Leiden University, working with a team of international r...
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4000-year-old clay tablets in a hypermodern scannerAncient clay tablets, between 2,500 and 4,000 years old, bearing cuneiform script have been scanned using a micro-CT-scanner at Delft University of Te...
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Prof. Bakels celebrates half-a-century scholarship at Leiden UniversityProf. C. Bakels is an archaeobotanist who devoted most of her career researching farming, its (pre)history and influence on the landscape. Born in 194...
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Heritage project showcased in EU brochureIn the EU brochure 'Creative Europe: rediscovering our cultural heritage' 15 successful heritage projects are presented. Among these projects is NEARC...
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Sarah Schrader to head the Osteoarchaeology labSince August 2017, dr. Sarah Schrader is working at the Faculty of Archaeology in the department of Archaeological Sciences. Her expertise is human os...
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Joanita Vroom investigates Byzantines and Ottomans with Aspasia grantThe Nederlandse Organisatie voor Wetenschappelijk Onderzoek (NWO) has awarded Professor Joanita Vroom with the Aspasia grant of €200,000. She will use...
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Neandertal genome from Les Cottés site sequencedOn March 21 2018, a study was published in Nature, co-authored by Professor M. Soressi from the Faculty of Archaeology of Leiden University, announcin...
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'Stephen Hawking put abstract science on the map'Theoretical physicist Stephen Hawking (76) passed away on 14 March at his home in Cambridge, having been a long-term sufferer of the muscular disease ...
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The stories behind the women's portraitsAn anatomical model of a heart, a mechanical digger or photos of mother and grandmother. Research interests and personal motivations have been given a...