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Erasmus+ grant for project on heritage as bridge between Academy and Society 07 March 2019Together with four European partner universities heritage specialist Dr Monique van den Dries has been granted an Erasmus+ project (EU-CUL) by the Eur...
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Record number of visitors to Bachelor's Open Day: ‘My mum misses me already’ 25 February 2019What can you expect from studying in Leiden or The Hague? Which programme should you choose? Should you join a student association and will you need t...
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New documentary “The Future is Handmade” reflects on value of craft 22 February 2019The documentary invites us to consider the question of what we consider valuable knowledge. “We need to realise that doing and thinking are intertwine...
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Building an excavation report search engine with a Digital Humanities grant 21 February 2019PhD candidate Alex Brandsen, working in the Digital Archaeology research group has recently received a grant from the Leiden University Centre for Dig...
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Laura van Broekhoven: ‘For me, it’s about the stories and who’s telling them’ 20 February 2019Laura van Broekhoven always knew she wanted to study archaeology, and that’s exactly what she did. Now this Leiden alumna is director of the Pitt Rive...
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Archaeologist helps develop board game on European prehistory 15 February 2019In the new board game Epoch – Early Inventors you explore the prehistoric landscape. You gather food and raw material to develop tools and skills, and...
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Dr Andrew Sorensen wins Tübingen Prize for Older Prehistory and Quaternary Ecology 12 February 2019Andrew Sorensen received the award for his work on the origins of fire-making, especially for his dissertation "Beyond Prometheus: Pursuing the origin...
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Wanted: research questions for citizen science 11 February 2019How many species of butterfly are living in my garden? Do I recognise the Leiden dialect? What is the air quality like in my area? Do you have a quest...
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Giacomo Fontana wins thesis prize with 'Seeking tombs from space' 11 February 2019The 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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Leiden University celebrates 444th birthday with residents of Leiden and The Hague 08 February 2019Leiden University celebrated its 444th anniversary with a historical procession on 8 February. It celebrated this year’s Dies Natalis in time-honoured...
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A real professor in front of the class 08 February 2019A lesson about aerodynamics from Vice-Rector Hester Bijl, about child rights by UNICEF professor Ton Liefaard, or about muscles by LUMC professor Ann...
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The interplay of cultures and technologies investigated in successful Lorentz Workshop 06 February 2019In the week of 14 to 18 January the Lorentz workshop 'Intersecting Worlds. The Interplay of Cultures and Technology' took place at the Lorentz Center ...
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Valentina Azzarà’s Leiden Experience: “I work on the big picture” 06 February 2019Recently, 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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How the ‘English disease’ turned out to be not so very English after all 21 January 2019A vitamin D deficiency is often associated with smoggy English industrial cities during the Industrial Revolution, but research carried out on skeleto...
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Replica of unique prehistoric sword unveiled in Oss 11 January 2019The Faculty of Archaeology has a long research tradition in the municipality of Oss. Since 1974, researchers and students have been carrying out archa...