1,036 search results for “ancient group” in the Public website
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Simon Otjes
Faculteit der Sociale Wetenschappen
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Understanding the Endless Steppe
Otrar as a Case Study for a 6-10th century Transition Zone
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The Economy of Pompeii
This volume presents fourteen papers by Roman archaeologists and historians discussing approaches to the economic history of Pompeii, and the role of the Pompeian evidence in debates about the Roman economy.
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The Unification of the Mediterranean World 400 BC - 400 AD
The Leiden Ancient History specialization concentrates on the study of the economies, societies and cultures of the large empires of the Graeco-Roman world, starting with the empires of Alexander the Great and his successors. The appearance of these empires led to the development of an interaction network…
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Mobility and exchange
Dynamics of material, social and ideological relationships in the pre-Columbian insular Caribbean
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The Impact of Mobility and Migration in the Roman Empire
The Impact of Mobility and Migration in the Roman Empire assembles a series of papers on key themes in the study of Roman mobility and migration.
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From Universe of Visnu to Universe of Siva
Around the sixth and seventh centuries, South and Southeast Asia saw a great religious change: Saivism largely took over from Vaisnavism. We’re going to look at the way in which Saivism, the religion of the god Siva, presented itself with respect to Vaisnavism. In particular we’ll investigate the role…
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Knowledge Ethical, Legal and Technological Aspects of Data Mining and Group Profiling in Epidemiology
With the rise of information and communication technologies, large amounts of data are being generated and stored in databases. In order to get a better grip on these large amounts of data, serious efforts are being made to discover patterns and relations in the data with the help of new techniques.…
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Greater focus on pre-Islamic heritage
War and terrorism overshadow interest in the pre-Islamic heritage of the Arabic peninsula. The new Leiden Centre for the Study of Ancient Arabia aims to make the general public more aware of the ancient history of this region.
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Cheianov Group - Quantum Many Body Physics in Condensed Matter and Ultracold Atomic Systems
The research in my group addresses a range of topics related to quantum many-body physics.
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A Descriptive grammar of Sumerian
This grammar describes Sumerian, an ancient Near Eastern language which was spoken in what is now southern Iraq, on the basis of written sources dating from about 2500 to 2000 BC.
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insights into the role of family members of those who joined jihadist groups
Since 2012, thousands of individuals have traveled from Western countries to join jihadist groups in Syria and Iraq. While much has been written about these individuals, only sparse attention has been paid to the social environment of these jihadist travelers and, more specific, the role of family members…
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Group benefits from genomic instability: a tale of antibiotic warriors in Streptomyces
Streptomyces are filamentous bacteria that produce more than two-thirds of known antibiotics.
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The writing on the rocks: Thamidic and Arabia's linguistic past
This project aims to open up the pre-Islamic linguistic history of Arabia through the systematic study of the Thamudic inscriptions within a digital humanities framework.
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Thy Name is Deer. Animal Names in Semitic Onomastics and Name- Giving Traditions: Evidence from Akkadian, Northwest Semitic, and Arabic
Hekmat Dirbas defended his thesis on 14 February 2017
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patients: a comparison between therapists, patients and a healthy control group
Which criteria do ED patients and therapists evaluate as most relevant for recovery? Do patients and therapists differ in their evaluations? Do eating disorder patients differ from a healthy control group in their scores on the Recovery Scale?
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ProParte Homerus leesclub
The Homer Reading Group is a ProParte sub-group.
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Urbanism and municipal administration in Roman North Africa
This project uses archaeological, literary and epigraphic evidence to investigate urban development in Roman-period North Africa, compiling this in a GIS-linked database in order to analyse the development of urban settlement spatially over time.
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New open access, peer-reviewed journal: Arabian Epigraphic Notes
The Leiden Center for the Study of Ancient Arabia (LeiCenSAA) announces a new open access, peer-reviewed journal dedicated to the epigraphy of Arabia and its cultural and linguistic context: Arabian Epigraphic Notes
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Yuye Que
Faculty of Humanities
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Nico Staring
Faculty of Humanities
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Ruurd Halbertsma
Faculty of Humanities
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Valentina Azzarà
Faculteit Archeologie
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Gerard Versluis
Faculteit Rechtsgeleerdheid
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Michael Kerschner
Faculteit Archeologie
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Annelou van Gijn
Faculteit Archeologie
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Luuk de Ligt
Faculty of Humanities
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Alessandro Aleo
Faculteit Archeologie
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The development of the Proto-Indo-European syllabic liquids in Greek
Ancient Greek was spoken in a large number of different dialects. Although we do not find direct evidence for syllabic liquids in any of our sources, comparative evidence shows that these sounds must have been present in Proto-Greek, and that they were retained until comparatively recently in the prehistory…
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Urban Craftsmen and Traders in the Roman World
This volume, featuring sixteen contributions from leading Roman historians and archaeologists, sheds new light on approaches to the economic history of urban craftsmen and traders in the Roman world, with a particular emphasis on the imperial period.
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The Archaeology of Greater Nicoya
Two Decades of Research in Nicaragua and Costa Rica
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The Long Arab Conquest of Central Asia: Urban Change in Merv, Paikent, Balkh and Samarkand (651-821)
This PhD research aims to trace the impact of the Arab conquest, both immediate and long-term, on the material and social organization of Central Asia from 651 to 821 through an “urban change” perspective in four cities: Merv, Paikent, Balkh and Samarkand.
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Re-assessing the environmental impact of early Roman expansion
This project aims to explore the environmental impact of early Roman expansion (4th/3rd century BC) through a program of dating and ecological sampling of traces of field systems (centuriations).
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Introducing: Pieter Houten
Pieter Houten is a PhD student in the ERC granted research project 'An Empire of 2000 Cities: urban networks and economic integration in the Roman empire', directed by Luuk De Ligt and John Bintliff (Archaeology).
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Moving Romans. Migration to Rome in the Principate.
Moving Romans offers an analysis of Roman migration by applying general insights, models and theories from the field of migration history.
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Papyrology
The Leiden Papyrological Institute is the only papyrological institute in the Netherlands, and one of the few institutes in the world where study of Greek and Demotic Egyptian is combined. This is reflected in both teaching and research. Members of the Institute are active in publishing texts from various…
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Charlotte van der Voort
Faculty of Humanities
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Fokelien Kootstra
Faculty of Humanities
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Marike van Aerde
Faculteit Archeologie
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On Composition in Herodian’s History of the Roman Emperors
In the History of the Roman Emperors, what does Herodian’s method of composition consist of and how does it relate to his writing intention, particularly in terms of political and moral idea(l)s?
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The Figure of Abraham in the Metrical Homilies of Jacob of Sarug: Its Literary and Theological Context
This project is a close and sensitive contextual study of Jacob of Sarug's (ca. 451-521 AD) metrical homily
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Asia Beyond Boundaries
Beyond Boundaries: Religion, Region, Language and the State is a major multidisciplinary research project which aims to re-vision the history of Asia in one of its most significant periods. The project is based at the British Museum, British Library and the School of Oriental and African Studies, and…
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Greek criticism and Latin literature. Classicism and cultural interaction in the late republican and early imperial Rome
This project examines the intriguing relationship between Greek literary criticism and Latin literature in Rome (first centuries BC and AD).
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Introducing: Damjan Donev
Damjan Donev is a PhD student in the ERC granted research project 'An Empire of 2000 Cities: urban networks and economic integration in the Roman empire', directed by Luuk De Ligt and John Bintliff (Archaeology).
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About the programme
The one-year (60 EC) master in Classics and Ancient Civilizations provides intensive and comprehensive training covering the entire range of present-day research on the ancient civilizations of Greece and Rome and the Ancient Near East.
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About
Leiden Center for the Study of Ancient Arabia
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Correlates of Complexity
Essays in Archaeology and Assyriology Dedicated to Diederik J.W. Meijer in Honour of his 65th Birthday
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Extra-curricular
The Classics and Ancient Civilizations programme offers many extracurricular opportunities to enrich your study experience.
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Extra-curricular
The Classics and Ancient Civilizations (Research) programme offers many extracurricular opportunities to enrich your study experience.