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Faculty of Archaeology ranks 5th in QS World University Ranking 11 April 2024
It is the eighth year in a row that the Faculty of Archaeology is placed in the top ten of archaeological institutes worldwide. The QS World Universit...
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New publication reviews Dutch colonial sources on the Indigenous Brazilian Tapuia people 30 October 2023
New publication reviews Dutch colonial sources on the Indigenous Brazilian Tapuia people: ‘For them the Dutch were another piece on the political ches...
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Faculty of Archaeology ranks 6th in QS World University Ranking 05 April 2023
It is the seventh year in a row that the Faculty of Archaeology is placed in the top ten of archaeological institutes worldwide. The QS World Universi...
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Archaeologist Martin Berger works on online FIFA exposition about origins of football 04 May 2022
Martin Berger was asked by the FIFA Museum in Zürich to help develop an exposition on the origins of football. In line with his expertise, he worked o...
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Faculty of Archaeology ranks 7th in QS World University Ranking 08 April 2022
It is the sixth year in a row that the Faculty of Archaeology is placed in the top ten of archaeological institutes worldwide. The QS World University...
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The wisdom of the Nahua 10 June 2021
Indigenous philosophies have been ignored for too long. This prompted Osiris González Romero to study the wisdom of the Nahua in Mexico. Their philoso...
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Archaeology in eighth position worldwide in QS World University Rankings 2021 09 March 2021
It is the fifth year in a row that the Faculty of Archaeology is placed in the top ten of archaeological institutes worldwide. The QS World University...
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Maarten Jansen compares ancient Mexican writing systems as Distinguished Emeritus Professor in Bonn 22 February 2021
Maarten Jansen, professor emeritus at the Faculty of Archaeology, was appointed as Distinguished Emeritus Professor for two years at the University of...
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Corn connects many generations of Maya 18 May 2020
That corn was highly important in the Maya culture is something that Genner Llanes Ortiz, himself a Maya from the Mexican province of Yucatan, has alw...
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Archaeology in ninth position worldwide in QS World University Rankings 2020 12 March 2020
It is the fourth year in a row that the Faculty of Archaeology is placed in the top ten of archaeological institutes worldwide. The QS World Universit...
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Archaeologist Omar Aguilar Sánchez receives Mexican youth prize 23 October 2019
On October 21st, 2019, the President of Mexico, Andrés Manuel López Obrador, handed out the National Prize for the Youth in the academic achievement c...
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Caribbean Ties international exhibition opens at Museon 23 May 2019
The international travelling exhibition Caribbean Ties will open at Museon in The Hague on Saturday 25 May. It tells the untold story of the indigenou...
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Genner Llanes-Ortiz’s Leiden Experience: ‘Indigenous stories contain knowledge from deep past’ 14 March 2019
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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Faculty of Archaeology contributes to 'Heritage on the Move' Overview Exhibition 03 December 2018
The Faculty of Archaeology, in the persons of Marlena Antczak and Lennart Kruijer, had three pictures included in the exhibition 'Heritage on the Move...
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Archaeology in eighth position in QS World University Rankings 2018 01 March 2018
It is the third year in a row that the Faculty of Archaeology is ranked the highest in continental Europe. Aside from this the faculty features, as it...