Archaeologists from Leiden University cast replicas of Bronze Age European swords and used them in simulated fights. They wanted to find out more abou...

In 2005 Leiden's municipal archaeologists excavated a 2,700-year-old canoe dug out from a tree trunk. Researchers from Material Culture Studies are no...

There are still things we can learn from the Ancient Greeks. How they managed to make sure that innovations were accepted, for example. A group of cla...

Globalisation means becoming globalised, a process in which material culture plays a crucial role. This is what Miguel John Versluys, the new Professo...

The world’s oldest known glue was made by Neanderthals. But how did they make it 200,000 years ago? Leiden archaeologists have discovered three possib...

Successful innovation requires more than technological progress alone. Every new concept must first be firmly anchored into an existing context. At le...