News
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2011 Tell Balata Campaign 2011 16 September 2011
The objectives of the 2011 campaign Tell Balata Archaeological Park are to carry out excavations, promotion and awareness, community involvement, gath...
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2011 Monte Alban 13 August 2011
At the VIth Monte Albán Round Table conference (July 2011) in Oaxaca, Mexico, Maarten Jansen (Leiden University) together with Mexican archaeologists ...
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2011 Laura van Broekhoven participates in the Museum Leadership Institute (MLI) 18 May 2011
The chief curator of the National Museum of Ethnology, Laura van Broekhoven, is participating in the Museum Leadership Institute at the Claremont Grad...
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2011 Field School ‘Crossroad of Cultures’ Robben Island South Africa 18 March 2011
The Robben Island field school in January and February 2011 investigated and documented the tangible and intangible heritage of Robben Island, encompa...
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2011 Leiden Centre for Global Heritage 25 January 2011
A Centre for Global Heritage will be set up at Leiden University, that integrates the unique global breadth and quality of academic expertise at the U...
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2010 Important gift of the Mexican Embassy 13 December 2010
The Mexican embassy, represented by the cultural attaché, Mr. José Manuel Springer, donated to the Faculty of Archaeology a voluminous publication of ...
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2010 Dean appointed as member of JPI Cultural Heritage academic committee 12 November 2010
On November 12, dean prof. Willem J.H. Willems was elected as one of the twelve members of the European Union’s academic committee Joint Programming I...
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2010 Heritage Management research in Mongolia 01 June 2010
Dean Prof. Willem J.H. Willems will be travelling to Mongolia in september 2010, as participant of the Mongolian International Heritage Team (MIHT). P...
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2010 Gabina Aurora Pérez building Oaxaca 01 January 2010
Gabina Aurora Pérez, Mixtec investigator and defender of rights of indigenous peoples, who is working at the Faculty of Archaeology, Leiden University...
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2009 State visit to Mexico & Indigenous People 11 November 2009
As part of the state visit to Mexico a theme lunch on indigenous cultures was organised.