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Maritime archaeologist Martijn Manders appointed as Professor of Underwater Archaeology in Leiden20 July 2022Maritime archaeologist Martijn Manders has been appointed professor of Underwater Archaeology and Maritime Cultural Heritage Management at Leiden Univ...
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Research into grave goods sheds new light on traditional roles28 June 2022New archaeological research into grave goods and skeletal material from the oldest grave field in the Netherlands shows that male-female roles 7,000 w...
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Contested heritage in The Hague: what to do with the remains of the Atlantik Wall?28 June 2022During World War II, the Nazi’s ordered a coastal defensive line to be built from the south of France to Norway. This Atlantik Wall aimed to defend th...
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Seed Grant for De Maaker and Gupta for research on heritage and climate governance31 May 2022Erik de Maaker and Radhika Gupta have received a Seed Grant to initiate research on how heritage has been and can be mobilised to address climate chan...
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Alumnus Adrian Young gives lecture on cultural heritage to AHK students19 May 2022On Monday 9 May, IIASL alumnus Adrian Young gave a very satisfying cross-disciplinary session between law and the arts, on the preservation of heritag...
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Heritage expert Ian Lilley holds commemoration speech at Netherlands-Australia War Memorial16 May 2022Professor Ian Lilley, the Faculty of Archaeology’s Willem Willems Chair in Archaeological Heritage, was invited by Her Excellency Mrs. Marion Derckx, ...
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Writing history together in the Transvaal18 October 2021Alicia Schrikker doesn't usually get involved in urban history. As a senior lecturer, her research field is generally the colonial history of Asia and...
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Meet archaeologist Martin Berger: ‘I want to answer archaeological and heritage questions’08 April 2021In the course of 2020 the Faculty of Archaeology was bolstered by some new staff members. Due to the coronavirus situation, sadly, this went for a lar...
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Local Panama communities work with archaeologists on historic land rights09 February 2021The question of land property titles is a common source of conflict between indigenous communities and federal authorities all over the Americas. A ne...
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Rescuing ancient rock art in Pakistan with a Prince Claus Heritage Emergency Grant22 October 2020Pakistani archaeologist Abdul Ghani Khan (MPhil) and Dr Marike van Aerde (Leiden University) have been awarded the Prince Claus Heritage Emergency Gra...
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Corn connects many generations of Maya18 May 2020That 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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Hunt for archaeological remains without leaving your home03 April 2020The Heritage Quest project begins on Monday 6 April. Heritage Quest is the first large-scale citizen science archaeology project in the Netherlands: a...
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Ian Simpson’s Leiden Experience: ‘Engaging with heritage can be a matter of cultural survival’12 February 2020Ian Simpson is a relatively new face at the Faculty of Archaeology. Starting as an assistant professor in the Heritage and Society department in 2018,...
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Angels for sale: retrieving looted cultural property27 January 2020The illicit trade in stolen cultural property is booming. Countless works of art and antiquities will be lost if we don’t do more to stop this. This i...
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Archaeology students vlog at Castellum Hoge Woerd08 January 2020For the bachelor's course Past and Future, Archaeology students visited Castellum Hoge Woerd (Utrecht), a modern interpretation of the Roman fort that...