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Archaeology in ninth position worldwide in QS World University Rankings 202012 March 2020It is the fourth year in a row that the Faculty of Archaeology is placed in the top ten of archaeological institutes worldwide. The QS World Universit...
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The future of experiencing the past11 March 2020The Faculty of Archaeology experiments with innovating their teaching methods, using 3D scans and visualisation technology to enable active learning. ...
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Mike Field’s Leiden Experience: ‘I try to make research teaching and teaching research.’11 March 2020Mike Field has been at the Faculty of Archaeology since 2008. As a driven archaeobotanist, he is consistantly contributing to the study of plant fossi...
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Approaching ancient Assyria through archaeology leads to new insights11 March 2020Dr Bleda Düring deemed it was time for an archaeological approach on the imperialisation of Assyria. ‘While there are lot of archaeological studies of...
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Holding the (colonial) fort in times of gentrification05 March 2020On the south coast of Sri Lanka is a colonial fort. Since it became a world heritage site, the fortified town of Galle has suddenly become a major tou...
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Vici grants for three Leiden researchers20 February 2020Three Leiden researchers will each receive a Vici grant of 1.5m euros. They are historian Cátia Antunes, cell biologist Dennis Claessen and archaeolog...
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Garenmarket: woven into the fabric of Leiden17 February 2020From cloth to serge and from ‘frame lands’ to a wool factory. Archaeologist and historian Roos van Oosten was pleasantly surprised by what she found o...
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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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'I am interested in how we simulate ourselves into the future'04 February 2020It is a known trait in humans to anchor innovations in the past, so as to make new developments easier to accept. It is an aspect of humanity that can...
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Archaeology thanks to computer-based research04 February 2020A mix of data research, artificial intelligence and archaeology led to lively discussions on 31 January. On that day the unique event 'AI & Data Scien...
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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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Housebuilding prehistoric style21 January 2020There’s a Stone Age house at Broekpolder, near the city of Vlaardingen. It wasn’t built by prehistoric people but by modern archaeologists from Leiden...
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Building a Byzantine and Ottoman Data Atlas with a DANS grant16 January 2020Joanita Vroom, Professor Archaeology of Medieval and Early Modern Eurasia at the Faculty of Archaeology, has again received a DANS Klein DataProject (...
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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...
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2019 Hall of fame07 January 2020Over the past year, many of our staff and students have won prizes, been awarded a substantial grant or been appointed to an academic association or a...