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'Rome after Rome': a unique student-scholar exploration of early medieval Rome 17 November 2021
Debates about the ‘end’ of the Roman era, how, when, and even if it ended, are still very much alive and raging. However, what happened after the (lon...
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First generation of students graduate from Applied Archaeology: ‘It is a peculiar and wonderful specialisation.’ 09 April 2021
In 2019, Federico Cappadona was one of the first students to enroll in the new master’s specialisation Applied Archaeology. He recently graduated and ...
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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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Archaeology students make museum exhibition on Sugar: ‘Before this I had no idea how sugar was produced’ 01 February 2021
When following a course on archaeology of the Crusaders, five archaeology students were presented the unique opportunity to create a small exhibition ...
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Data Management and the Gortyn Project: ‘With great data comes great responsibility’ 02 December 2020
The world is becoming increasingly digitised, and the information one has easy access to is often rather overwhelming. In particular, the accumulative...
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Archaeologist Ady Roxburgh receives two-year research grant from the Estonian Research Council 02 July 2020
Ady Roxburgh has been awarded a two-year grant to continue his research into the choices behind the composition of Roman, copper-alloy artefacts. The ...
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Videoconferencing with the Rural Riches group: ‘The most important thing is to develop some discipline’ 26 March 2020
The Rural Riches research group convenes for coffee on a daily basis. Remotely, that is, to prevent the spread of coronavirus. It is the perfect way t...
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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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Building a Byzantine and Ottoman Data Atlas with a DANS grant 16 January 2020
Joanita 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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Femke Lippok wins W.A. van Es-prize for her pioneering work on early medieval burial rites 27 November 2019
During the 2019 Reuvensdagen, PhD candidate Femke Lippok was awarded the prestigious W.A. van Es-prize for her research master’s thesis The Pyre and t...
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Looking to the future of Leiden’s legacy collections: taking care of the past, teaching tomorrow’s students 23 October 2019
In the Faculty of Archaeology depots, many artefacts, accumulated after decades of fieldwork across the world are stored. The Leiden Inventory of the ...
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Podcast: A plunge into the cesspits of Leiden 15 April 2019
Archaeologist Roos van Oosten is studying Leiden's medieval cesspits. And on the basis of her work she reaches a surprising conclusion: the Middle Age...
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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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Three new professors in Archaeology 31 January 2018
At the Faculty of Archaeology, three new professors are appointed with effect from February 1, 2018. They are Ann Brysbaert, Marie Soressi, and Joanit...
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Gastronomical archaeology in new book Medieval MasterChef 20 December 2017
The archaeology of food is in all sorts of ways ‘hot’. To illustrate this, recently the book Medieval MasterChef was published, focusing on cuisine an...