1,569 search results for “ancient technology” in the Public website
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YAL members
Read all about YAL membership and the members of the Young Academy Leiden.
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The archaeology of face masks: ‘Face masks layers will be a huge help for future archaeologists’
From one year to the next, face masks have started to appear in the environment. As the masks are discarded, they end up in the top soil, in sediment layers, and in refuse heaps. In a couple of generations archaeologists will study the layer that has already been labeled the Face Mask Horizon. Current…
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Leiden Asia Year Graduate Conference: De-bordering Asia
Conference
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Portable Light Dome Demonstration
Lecture, Demonstration
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Masterclasses by Hugh Kennedy
Course, Al-Babtain Masterclasses
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A Neandertal in us?
Lecture
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Nomads and Sedentaries
Faculty Roundtable
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The formation of Islam: The view from below
By examining the impact of Islam on the daily life of those living under its rule, the goal of this project is to understand the striking newness of Islamic society and its debt to the diverse cultures it superseded. Questions will be the extent, character, and ambition of Muslim state competency at…
- Volume 6 (2011)
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Text in Context
Recontextualising the Papyri from Roman Soknopaiou Nesos / Dimê (Fayyum, Egypt)
- Volume 8 (2013)
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Tales of the Revolt. Memory, Oblivion and Identity in the Low Countries, 1566-1700
This research project, that started in September 2008, aims to explore how personal and public memories of the Dutch Revolt in the seventeenth century evolved and interacted to create new political and cultural identities for the societies that eventually were to become the kingdoms of the Netherlands…
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Cairo Institute Director: ‘I’m keeping the ship afloat’
In March 2020, the Netherlands-Flemish Institute in Cairo suddenly had to repatriate 57 students to the Netherlands and Flanders. Director and Arabic specialist Rudolf de Jong decided to stay in Egypt. ‘A lot of the work carries on.’
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Lucia Langerak: ‘I'm not one to sit on the sidelines’
Lucia Langerak was awarded a Master’s degree in Egyptology with cum laude honours in 2018. Her bachelor’s degree was also with cum laude honours. ‘I’m an exceptional Egyptologist, if only because I’ve never been to Egypt.’ She is now the coordinator of the Access & Support Platform at the University…
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Veni grants for 25 Leiden researchers
From molecular ping-pong to cassava in the Amazon, and from extraterrestrial life to special antibodies. Twenty-five researchers from Leiden University have been awarded a Veni grant from the NWO. A grant of up to 250,000 euros will give them the opportunity to further elaborate their own ideas over…
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Aris Politopoulos: ‘I use games as a teaching method'
In his lectures Aris Politopoulos combines archaeology with video games. He is one of the three nominees for the 2020 LUS Teaching Prize. 'A good teacher is always open to feedback from students.'
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GI grants awarded to Mariana Francozo, Sabine Luning and Wayne Modest
Global Interactions is pleased to announce that we have awarded a GI Advanced Seminar grant to Dr. Mariana Francozo (Archaeology) for 'Historia Naturalis Brasiliae' and a Breed Grant for 'Global Earth Matters' to Dr. Sabine Luning (CA-DS) and Dr. Wayne Modest (RCMC)
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Pieter's Corner: How useful is deprivation of liberty?
A new bill is currently under debate in the Netherlands, advocating raising the prison sentence for manslaughter from 15 to 25 years. ‘This very serious crime (...) evokes feelings of disgust and insecurity in society’, Dutch Minister for Justice and Security Grapperhaus comments on the sentence that…
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LIAS Online Concert: Music from North India
Live Concert
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This Week's Discoveries | 16 april 2019
Lecture
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Tocharian in Progress
Conference
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Hearing Heat: An Anthropocene Acoustemology
Lecture, The 6th Adriaan Gerbrands Lecture
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Life & Work in a Byzantine Industrial Hub
Workshop
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Re-Presented Pasts: Uses and Re-Uses of the Past in Pre-Modern Islam
Conference, LUCIS Research Programme | Re-Presented Pasts
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Nulli tam laeti triumphi: Constantine’s cameo and its historical context
Lecture
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The Roman World Between Global Society and Local Cultures
Conference
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Exhibition of Panji, Diponegoro and La Galigo manuscripts
Exhibition
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The Island of the Divine Crocodile – Recent Research on Textual and Other Archaeological Remains from Soknopaiou Nesos
Conference
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Ethno-taxonomy among Bakhtiari nomads of Iran
Lecture
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Colloquim Reforming Democracy by Graham Parkes (Hawai'i)
Lecture
- Leiden University Nationalism Network
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Ethno-taxonomy among Bakhtiari nomads of Iran – Part 2: Plants
Lecture
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LTP Lecture with Kit Fine 'The Logic and Metaphysics of Gender'
Lecture
- LUCIP Forum, Debates on Death and Immortality in Classical Chinese Cosmology
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Between Admiration and Repulsion: The ‘Witch’ in Medieval Islam
Lecture, LUCIS What's New?! Series
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Formation of Islam: Topics
The FOI project has a number of topics it aims to investigate. These are: State, Economy, Culture and Papyri. You will find links to bibliographies on this page.
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10th Leiden Symposium on New Religiosity - The Tell-Tale Art: Divination and Oracular Practice from All Angles
Lecture, Symposium
- Volume 13 (2018)
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Exchanges on the Middle East: Heritage for Citizenship in Times of Conflict
Student Workshop
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7th Coffee Break Conference: Comparisons Across Time and Space
Conference
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Narratives and figures in transition
Lecture, Friends of the Kern Institute lecture
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Workshop Existential Ethics
Debate
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Granada ENIS Spring School 2019
Conference
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Innovation and Tradition: The Odd Couple
Debate
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Forum Antiquum: Carole Newlands
Lecture
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Constructing Heritage in Early Soviet Central Asia
Lecture
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What Cards and Coins Reveal: Divinatory Techniques in the Netherlands
Conference
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On not seeing like a state: How archaeology can inform critiques of the inevitability of hierarchy, dispossession, and disconnection of the human
Lecture, Faculty Lecture
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Exchanges on the Middle East: Heritage for Citizenship in Times of Conflict
Public Lecture and Debate
- China Seminar