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Fieldwork
Fieldwork is an essential part of this research and of course this part of the project is also a joint effort by citizen scientists and professional archaeologists. Discover when fieldwork will take place and how you can participate.
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Hieratic, Demotic and Greek Studies and Text Editions. Of Making Many Books There Is No End: Festschrift in Honour of Sven P. Vleeming
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Leiden Journal of Pottery Studies 23
Leiden Journal of Pottery Studies 23, 2007
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Etruscan religion
Research in the field of Etruscology at the Faculty of Archaeology of Leiden University (UL; the Netherlands) aims at exploring the history of the religious and ideological mentality of the Etruscans by studying archaeological, epigraphical and ancient written sources.
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Making messages memorable: the influence of rhetorical techniques on information retention
On the 24th of June, Martijn Wackers successfully defended a doctoral thesis and graduated. The Leiden University Centre for Linguistics congratulates Martijn on this achievement!
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Valuing Landscape in Classical Antiquity. Natural Environment and Cultural Imagination
Different ways in which physical environments impacted on the cultural imagination of Greco-Roman antiquity.
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Rituals of Initiation and Consecration in Premodern Japan
Power and Legitimacy in Kingship, Religion, and the Arts Volume 87 in the series Religion and Society
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The Arab Thieves: al-Maqrīzī’s al-Ḫabar ʿan al-bašar
Vol. V, Sections 1-2
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Emblems and the Natural World
The multiple connections between emblematics and Natural History in the broader perspective of their underlying artistic, literary, political and religious ideologies.
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Student life
Leiden is a lively university city, brimming with history and boasting a student life that’s tangible just about everywhere.
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Winged Words: Diachronic and Comparative Perspectives on Conceptual Metaphors
Conference
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Alexandria the Cosmopolis
A global perspective
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Cryptic species discovery
Do understudied animals contain hidden species?
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Oriental Dance intermediate/advanced
Arts and leisure, Arts and leisure
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Oriental dance beginners
Arts and leisure, Arts and leisure
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A New industry in an Ancient Land: Archaeology and Tourism at the crossroads
Conference, Public event
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How a very international archaeologist was born
From mandrill teeth to the microstructure of bones: archaeology alumna Simone Lemmers (31) is determined to reveal the past by studying old remains. Her curiosity has led to a very international career, also in the UK, where she witnessed the Brexit referendum.
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tell us: on ancestor worship, law, social status and gender norms in Ancient Egypt
PhD defence
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Special Chair for Central European studies and LJSA Member Prof. dr. Sarah Cramsey holds “teach-ins” on the most recent history of Israel/Palestine
Since the horrific events of October 7, 2023, Leiden students have grappled with difficult questions about Israel, Gaza and Israel/Palestine conflict more generally. Drawing on her expertise in the history of the Jewish experience in the diaspora and beyond, Prof. dr. Sarah Cramsey has held multiple…
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Visiting Scholar Dr. Lena Sadovski talks about religious hyperdiversity in early modern south-east Europe
On October 11, the Austria Centre Leiden teamed up with the Leiden Jewish Studies Association to welcome Dr. Lena Sadovski for a lunch time talk. Fifteen colleagues from across the university, including retirees and graduate students, attended Dr. Sadovski's fascinating lecture entitled “When religion…
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Traces of indigenous "Taíno" found in present-day Caribbean populations
A thousand-year-old tooth has provided genetic evidence that the so-called
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Neandertal genome from Les Cottés site sequenced
On March 21 2018, a study was published in Nature, co-authored by Professor M. Soressi from the Faculty of Archaeology of Leiden University, announcing the sequencing of five new Neandertals, raising the number of high-coverage sequenced Neandertals from two to seven. A tooth lost by a Neandertal woman…
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The Saint-Servatius complex in Maastricht
The Vrijthof excavations (1969-1970)
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The island of Skyros from Late Roman to Early Modern times
ASLU 28 Michalis Karambinis (2015)
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TruLife – Pre-Columbian Tropical Urban Life
TruLife applies lessons from the study of long-term urban traditions, exemplified by pre-Columbian Maya tropical cities, to present-day sustainable urban design.
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Locvs : Memory and Transience in the Representation of Place: From Italic Domus to Artistic Environment
As an artist Clevis is fascinated by the phenomenon of place in relation to beginnings and final destinations.
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Nietzsche's Philosophy of Conflict and the Logic of Organisational Struggle
A comprehensive analysis of Nietzsche's conception of conflict and the way in which relations of struggle condition the organisation of complex systems (with a specific focus on the human psyche and the body politic).
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Play and Media
Play and Media is one of the six research themes of the LUCAS Modern and Contemporary cluster.
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Graduate School of Humanities
Welcome to the Graduate School of the Faculty of Humanities.
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Necropolis journal: The Administration of an Egyptian Artisans’ Community
What was the practice of keeping the Necropolis Journal?
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Keys to Rome
Shining a new light on the Roman world
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Research
The Modern and Contemporary Cluster is the largest within LUCAS and home to more than 100 staff members and PhD candidates. Hosting a diverse group of young and advanced scholars, it offers an especially fruitful and dynamic environment for interdisciplinary collaboration.
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Landscapes of Survival
The Archaeology and Epigraphy of Jordan’s North-Eastern Desert and Beyond
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The Dark Middle Ages: Language of Vice in Histories of Science, 1700-1900
In comparing a selection of 18th-century histories to a representative sample of 19th-century histories of science, this project inquires: Which early modern vices persisted into the 19th century and to what extent were those vices embodied in anecdotes, conveyed through commonplaces, or symbolically…
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Classical Controversies: Reception of Graeco-Roman Antiquity in the Twenty-First Century
Modern receptions of Graeco-Roman Antiquity are important ideological markers of the ways we envisage our own twenty-first-century societies. An urgent topic of study is: what kinds of narratives – sometimes controversial – about Antiquity do people create for themselves at this moment in time, and…
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More laws, more problems? The role of (Roman) law in society according to Cornelius Tacitus
Whether implicitly or explicitly, we all have ideas about how the law is supposed to function, whose interests it should represent, and what role it should play in society. This project explores the ways in which these questions are addressed in the works of the Roman historian Publius Cornelius Tacitus…
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Classical and Mediterranean Archaeology
Caspar Reuvens, the world’s first Professor of Archaeology, was a prominent classical scholar and from his appointment in 1818 onwards Classical & Mediterranean Archaeology has been an important field of research in Leiden.
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Associates
Associates of Leiden University Center for Intercultural Philosophy