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Aris Politopoulos lectures like an Assyrian king: ‘Video lectures need to be ten times more engaging’ 20 April 2020
There are some lecturers who are better equipped to provide remote education than others. And then there is Aris Politopoulos, who already owned profe...
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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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Approaching ancient Assyria through archaeology leads to new insights 11 March 2020
Dr Bleda Düring deemed it was time for an archaeological approach on the imperialisation of Assyria. ‘While there are lot of archaeological studies of...
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Exploring the Faculty’s depots: ‘What's an Indian type of cooking pot doing in Jerusalem?’ 24 May 2019
In the depots of the Faculty of Archaeology, many artifacts, accumulated after decades of fieldwork across the world, are stored. A new project, the L...
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Giacomo Fontana wins thesis prize with 'Seeking tombs from space' 11 February 2019
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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Valentina Azzarà’s Leiden Experience: “I work on the big picture” 06 February 2019
Recently, Valentina Azzarà joined the Faculty of Archaeology as a postdoc in the Archaeology of the Near East research group. She mostly focuses on th...
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Aris Politopoulos’ Leiden Experience: “video games can provide new avenues for research” 12 November 2018
Seven years ago, Aris Politopoulos left Athens for a master’s programme at the Leiden Faculty of Archaeology. Now he has nearly finished his PhD disse...
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Catalin Popa’s Leiden experience: “Archaeology needs to contribute to society.” 19 October 2018
Originally from Romania, Catalin Popa has been working at our Faculty as a Postdoc for two years now. He is a landscape archaeologist with a deep inte...
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Subsidy for digitalisation of Tell Deir Alla fieldwork 09 May 2018
The 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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Joanita Vroom investigates Byzantines and Ottomans with Aspasia grant 29 March 2018
The 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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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...
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Hundreds of Stone Tombs Discovered in Land of 'Dead Fire' 13 July 2017
The faculty has been investigating hundreds of ancient stone tombs in Jordan’s Black Desert.
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DANS Klein DataProject bursary for Joanita Vroom 03 May 2017
Joanita Vroom, Associate Professor at the Faculty of Archaeology, has received a DANS Klein DataProject (KDP) bursary for her project entitled ‘Data A...
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Archaeology in ninth position in QS World University Rankings 2017 09 March 2017
It is the second year in a row that the Faculty of Archaeology is ranked the highest in continental Europe. Aside from this the faculty features, as i...
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'I cook, therefore I am' 10 February 2017
For a new food-related exhibition in the Wereldmuseum, Rotterdam, archaeologist Dr. Joanita Vroom has cooperated in creating the Taste Lab, where one ...