In the media
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Redden wat er te redden valt in Raqqa13 September 2017Raqqa was tientallen jaren een plaats die het hart van archeologen sneller liet kloppen. "Vanwege alle spectaculaire opgravingen die er werden gedaan....
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Media attention for lime-producing Neanderthals12 September 2017Neanderthals were the first people to make glue, but how did they do that? Leiden archaeologists discovered how, and their findings did not go unnoticed.
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Hundreds of Stone Tombs Discovered in Land of 'Dead Fire'13 July 2017The faculty has been investigating hundreds of ancient stone tombs in Jordan’s Black Desert.
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The garden of Eden is Africa21 June 2017Amazing discoveries by Jean Jacques Hublin of Early modern Humans in Morocco.
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Martijn Manders about De Rooswijk at RTL Late Night & Pauw19 April 2017300 hundred man went down with Dutch VOC vessel ‘de Rooswijk’ on January 9 1740 for the coast of Deal in the UK.
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Dental tartar unfolds Neanderthal secrets13 March 2017British and Australian researchers have analysed the DNA in the dental tartar of several Spanish Neanderthals. One of the conclusions was that the Nea...
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Archaeologist Sada Mire in 'Africa's Great Civilizations'27 February 2017In his new six-hour series, Africa's Great Civilizations, Henry Louis Gates, Jr. takes a new look at the history of Africa, from the birth of humankin...
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'Masterchefs from the Middle Ages'16 February 2017Joanita Vroom, Associate Professor Archaeology, regularly tries out old recipes, together with a group of Archaeology students. 'You really need to lo...
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Project for protection Syrian archaeology on Dutch radio16 February 2017Olivier Nieuwenhuijse, project leader of the project Focus Raqqa, was hosted by the NOS Radio 1 news broadcast on February 16, 2017.
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Archaeologist Hayley Mickleburgh hosted by radioshow Kennis van Nu30 January 2017On Wednesday January 25, Hayley Mickleburgh was hosted by the radio show de Kennis van Nu (NPO radio 1). Here she told about her work on a body farm i...
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Archaeologist Hayley Mickleburgh guest at talkshow RTL Late Night23 January 2017On Thursday January 19, 2017, Hayley Mickleburgh was invited to speak at the Dutch talkshow RTL Late Night. Here she talked about her research on so c...
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Archaeologist Roos van Oosten in Quest Historie16 January 2017Roos van Oosten's research on medieval cesspits stood on the basis of an article on this subject in Quest Historie, a Dutch magazine about history.
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Researchers find paw of Dutch bear20 December 2016Researchers from Leiden and Groningen have found a fossilised paw of one of the last Dutch brown bears. They made their discovery in the water supply ...
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Research on Jordan's Black Desert covered in the media28 November 2016The faculty's research on the ancient rock art found in Jordan's Black Desert has recently been covered by several news and science websites.
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'A Disney-version of Nimrud does not bring back history'21 November 2016The Iraqi archaeological site of Nimrud was recently recaptured from IS. The site has been severely damaged. The question now is, what to do with it? ...