1,185 search results for “ancient history and archaeology” in the Student website
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Data Management: Where to permanently store the digital archaeological datasets these days?
It is the end of your archaeological research project, and you may be wondering where to deposit your data. After the excavation, all of the finds are drawn, scanned, digitised, and the database is completed. Perhaps you have also accumulated a lot of data through further scientific analysis of the…
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Archaeology students play important role in visit indigenous Ka’apor people
As part of Mariana Françozo’s BRASILAE project, a group of representatives of the Ka’apor people was invited to visit Leiden. The Ka’apor, an indigenous people from Brazil, are some of the present-day relatives of the Tupi-speaking peoples who used to live in the northeastern region of Brazil, claimed…
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Mark Driessen
Faculteit Archeologie
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Vote now! Doggerland book nominated for Current Archaeology Book prize 2024
Britain's biggest archaeology magazine has announced the nominees Book of the Year award and this time one of our own has been nominated!
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Archaeology in eighth position worldwide in QS World University Rankings 2021
It is the fifth year in a row that the Faculty of Archaeology is placed in the top ten of archaeological institutes worldwide. The QS World University Rankings by Subject looks at criteria like academic reputation and citation ratios. Dean Jan Kolen is pleased with this news: 'In recent years, the Faculty…
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Mark Driessen's Jordan fieldwork features in Photo Exhibition
The National Museum of Antiquities in Leiden features a small photo exhibition on Mark Driessen's fieldwork research project in Southern Jordan. In this small exhibition you will see a selection of nine photos, made in Udhruh. This ancient Jordanian settlement lies fifteen kilometres east of Petra,…
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Anne Gerritsen
Faculty of Humanities
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Fan Lin
Faculty of Humanities
- New Code of Conduct for Archaeological Fieldwork: from ethics to alcohol consumption
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Leiden-NIA Course in Athens for archaeology and heritage practitioners
Education
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Internships for students: Future learning and sustainable preservation of archaeology
Whilst the world is opening up, the teaching will continue in a hybrid form next academic year. During the past year, when all of us were bound to our home offices and computer screens, new forms of education had to be developed – some of which proved to be efficient in preparing the students for their…
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Throwback: a festive end of the Faculty of Archaeology’s celebratory year
On Tuesday, the 16th of May, the Faculty of Archaeology put a festive end to the 25th year celebrations. The programme included a dedication of our largest meeting room, the sealing and burying of a time capsule, and a BBQ.
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Research by Leiden archaeologists in The Jordan Times
Recent fieldwork at the vast desert region in north-eastern Jordan has revealed an immensely rich heritage of an area that is difficult to access and archaeologically less known. Professor Peter Akkermans was interviewed about his groundbreaking research in this area, known as the Black Desert.
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Factory Girls, Sex Workers, and Minorities: Writing the Marginalized in History
Hanan Hammad and Eftychia Mylona give a master class focusing on conceptual and methodological challenges in writing histories of marginalized social groups.
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Summer Stream Extravaganza: historical video games, archaeology and studying in Leiden
Social
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Will you represent your fellow Archaeology students in the Faculty Board? Apply for the Assessor vacancy
Organisation
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Add your thoughts about the future of the Faculty of Archaeology to the time capsule
Social
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Register for ARCHON’s workshop on multidisciplinary perspectives in archaeology and marine historical ecology
Education
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Election results are in: Faculty Council Archaeology 2023-2024 established
Organisation
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New archaeological perspectives on an Arabian oasis in Islamic periods
Lecture
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Diversify ARCHaeology (DARCH) Fund: Call for Applications for 2023-2024
Organisation
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Hoe ontstonden handelsnetwerken in het derde millennium voor Christus?
Grondstoffen werden vroeger over duizenden kilometers afstand vervoerd. Waarvoor werden ze geruild en waarom sloten mensen in West-Azië zich aan bij deze handelsnetwerken?
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Suggestion Box: Help us create and maintain an inclusive archaeology community
Facility
- Autumn School in Athens: Audio Visual Methods in Archaeology and Heritage Studies
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Register for the Leiden Archaeological Internship and Career Event December 1
Education
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Aitor Burguet-Coca
Faculteit Archeologie
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Patrick Degryse
Faculteit Archeologie
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Fulco Scherjon
Faculteit Archeologie
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Areti Leventi
Faculteit Archeologie
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Andrew Sorensen
Faculteit Archeologie
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Alexis Maldonado Ruiz
Faculteit Archeologie
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Wei Chu
Faculteit Archeologie
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Wil Roebroeks
Faculteit Archeologie
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Wouter Verschoof-van der Vaart
Faculteit Archeologie
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Andrea Richards-Cummins
Faculteit Archeologie
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Marlieke Ernst
Faculty of Humanities
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Floris Keehnen
Faculteit Archeologie
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Annemieke Verbaas
Faculteit Archeologie
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Yvonne Lammers-Keijsers
Faculteit Archeologie
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Save the date: Discussion meeting Liveable Planet at Faculty of Archaeology on February 22
Research
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Are you one of the new student members of the Education Committee Archaeology?
Education, Organisation
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Developing methods on remote sensing detection of archaeological features in Colombia with LDE grant
A Leiden-Delft-Erasmus research team has been awarded a LDE Global Support Grant to develop reusable algorithms in the remote detection of non-orthogonal architectural features, taking place in the archaeological context of the northern extremities of the Andean, part of the Istmo-Colombian Area.
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‘In Leiden you feel history is very close’
Leiden alumnus Makoto Yoshida from Japan studied Dutch history and politics from 1996 to 1997. Now he is back in Leiden with his wife who is currently a student at the Faculty of Humanities. Some things still surprise him. 'Everyone at university uses first names, which was - and still is - unacceptable…
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Unique research on inscriptions offers new insights into history Islam
From the very beginning, the Islam has known an oral tradition. It was only two hundred years ago that Muslims starting writing about the history of Islam, on rocks or other hard materials. Arabic epigraphy (study of inscriptions) turns out to be an essential tool in historical genealogy research. Abdullah…
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Yuye Que
Faculty of Humanities
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Gerard Versluis
Faculteit Rechtsgeleerdheid
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DUSANE: Dutch Symposium of the Ancient Near East 2023
Symposium
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successful pilot with bring your own device exams at the Faculty of Archaeology
At Leiden University, more and more exams are being done digitally instead of on paper. Originally, Leiden University would provide the large quantities of laptops needed for these exams. With rising demand for digital exams, however, the limits of this system were in sight. Now the Faculty of Archaeology…
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Are you one of the new student members of the Education Committee Archaeology?
Education
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An archaeological perspective on South Holland and its Water Past and Present
Four students of the Faculty of Archaeology investigated how the current and past inhabitants of the Dutch province of South Holland deal with water. Their findings now feature in an exhibition that can now be visited in the Van Steenis building’s Reuvenshal.