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Archaeology in ninth position in QS World University Rankings 2017 09 March 2017
It is the second year in a row that the Faculty of Archaeology is ranked the highest in continental Europe. Aside from this the faculty features, as i...
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'I cook, therefore I am' 10 February 2017
For a new food-related exhibition in the Wereldmuseum, Rotterdam, archaeologist Dr. Joanita Vroom has cooperated in creating the Taste Lab, where one ...
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Former research assistant Hannah Plug appointed at Liverpool University 14 December 2016
Until September 2016, Hannah Plug was Research Assistant for the Consolidating Empire Research Project under the direction of Dr. Bleda Düring. Now, ...
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Archaeologist Joanita Vroom receives Global Interactions Breed Grant 30 November 2016
Dr. Joanita Vroom has been awarded a Breed Grant by the Leiden Global Interactions research profile to support the realisation of her project ‘Shiftin...
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Leiden archaeologist as president to byzantine world conference 01 August 2016
Joanita Vroom has been appointed as president of the Society ‘Byzantine Studies Netherlands / Byzantijnse Studies Nederland’, the Dutch branch of the ...
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Archaeology at Leiden University in Top 10 of QS World University Rankings 2016 22 March 2016
The Faculty of Archaeology ranks as the best in continental Europe and is in the top ten of the world. The Faculty of Archaeology hosts a successful m...
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Tell Balata Archaeological Park project 15 January 2015
Tell Balata Archaeological Park project On January 15th the cooperation project of the Faculty of Archaeology with the Palestinian Ministry of Tourism...
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NWO Free Competition Grant for Al-Jallad and Akkermans 12 February 2014
Dr. Ahmad Al-Jallad and Prof.dr. Peter Akkermans have been awarded with the NWO Free Competition Grant for their research project 'Landscapes of Survi...
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New research project in Oman 11 November 2013
In January 2014 the first season will take place of a new research project from the Faculty of Archaeology in Oman.
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Rescuing Tell Begum 10 July 2013
Olivier Nieuwenhuyse, member of the Faculty of Archaeology, was successful in receiving a grant from the Bijvanck Foundation for a first campaign of w...
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Leiden Archaeologist joins prestigious french project 24 May 2013
Dr. Joanita Vroom (Near Eastern and Mediterranean archaeology) has been invited to join the prestigious French POMEDOR Project as co-applicant and reg...
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24 years of excavations on one DVD: The archive of Tell Sabi Abyad will be digitized with a grant from DANS 27 February 2013
DANS (Digital Archiving and Networked Services - an institute of the KNAW) has granted an application for a Small Data Project for the digitizing and ...
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2011 ERC Grant for Bleda Düring for research on Hegemonic Practices of the Middle Assyrian Empire of Tell Sabi Abyad 24 August 2011
The European Research Council had awarded a Starting Independent Researcher Grant to Bleda Düring for the project Consolidating Empire.Reconstructing ...
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2010 Pilot excavation in Iraqi Kurdistan 23 February 2010
The Netherlands organisation for Scientific Research NWO has granted a subsidy to prof. dr Wilfred H. van Soldt (Humanities, LIAS) and dr Diederik J.W...