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Past ❤ Play: Ammodo Science Award 202406 June 2024A team of Leiden researchers has received the Ammodo Science Award for conducting innovative humanities research into the experience of cultural herit...
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Podcast: The Tragic Fate of Egyptologist Herta Mohr04 June 2024Leiden University recently named a new building for Egyptologist Herta Mohr. But who was she?
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International students explore the archaeology of Oss: ‘I was responsible for finding 50% of the pottery sherds’31 May 2024The Municipality of Oss is a household name in the world of Dutch archaeology. For fifty years, Leiden archaeologists, in collaboration with residents...
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Planting polder rice barefoot in the mud: ‘Searching for the agriculture of the future’30 May 2024After decades of intensive farming, the peatland area is under pressure. Researchers, farmers and policymakers work together in the Polderlab to ident...
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Remote sensing for Roman Mallorca with a Chastelain-Nobach fund23 May 2024For the past 2 years, Dr Letty ten Harkel has been jointly running an excavation project of a suspected Roman villa site on the Balearic island of Mal...
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Short documentary on 50 years archaeology in Oss22 May 2024In the student-made documentary, our Field School manager, Dr Arjan Louwen, gives a brief introduction on the importance of the excavation in Oss. Wat...
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Leiden archaeologists held an open day in Oss to celebrate 50 years of collaboration08 May 2024On May 4, 2024, from 10.00 to 16.00 hours, a festive day took place in Oss, celebrating the fact that staff and students of the Leiden Faculty of Arch...
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Interdisciplinary symposium on restitution policies seeks more diverse perspectives08 May 2024Taking responsibility concerning colonial heritage and restitution is a pressing issue for countries and museums worldwide. On 23 and 24 May, a Leiden...
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Leiden conference to look for emerging trends in global governance07 May 2024Global challenges require global governance answers. For that reason, between 5 and 7 June, the interdisciplinary research programme Global Transforma...
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Student tower opened with café, common room and spectacular views26 April 2024The 289 students who recently moved into the tower on Kolffpad at the Leiden Bio Science Park are sitting pretty. They have the keys to a self-contain...
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What’s Your Story?: diversiteit in een kaartspel18 April 2024The JEDI Fund supports projects that promote diversity and inclusivity within the university. One of these projects is the card game called ‘What’s Yo...
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Faculty of Archaeology ranks 5th in QS World University Ranking11 April 2024It is the eighth 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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Impacting policy through the Faculty Council Archaeology: ‘we are working on the wellbeing of students’11 April 2024The Faculty Council is the most important co-participatory body of the Faculty of Archaeology. Its members represent staff and students in meetings wi...
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DNA analysis of historical mosquitoes will help us understand malaria transmission05 April 2024Researchers from Leiden University, McMaster University and Public Health Ontario are calling on colleagues to track down archival specimens of mosqui...
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Preserving Syrian excavation data: ‘the documentation here in Leiden is the only thing that’s left’04 April 2024The Faculty of Archaeology used to be involved in several excavations in Syria, before the outbreak of civil war made travel to the region impossible....