1,068 search results for “ancient egypt” in the Public website
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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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Quintijn Mauer
Faculteit Rechtsgeleerdheid
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Alessandro Aleo
Faculteit Archeologie
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Yuye Que
Faculty of Humanities
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Luuk de Ligt
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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Annelou van Gijn
Faculteit Archeologie
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Michael Kerschner
Faculteit Archeologie
- Laboratory for Ceramics Studies
- Week 2: 12–18 January, 2020
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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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Archaeology/ Egyptology
Archaeological expeditions from the Netherlands and Flanders for which the NVIC acts as the primary facilitating institution in Egypt.
- Week 7-8: 19-28 February 2017
- Week 1: 8-13 January 2018
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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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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 Legend of Saint Aūr and the Monastery of Naqlūn: The Copto-Arabic Texts
Clara ten Hacken defended her thesis on 16 December 2015
- Week 3: 21-27 January 2018
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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).
- Current guest researchers
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Student Diary
Every year the MA Egyptology students from Leiden University and KU Leuven spend two months in Egypt during January and February for the "Egyptology in the Field" study programme. You can read about their adventures and experiences in this weekly diary, written by the students.
- Week 8: 25-28 February 2018
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The Leiden-Turin Excavations at Saqqara
Update : March 2020 Directors: Dr. Lara Weiss and Dr. Christian Greco Deputy directors: Dr. Daniel Soliman and Dr. Paolo Del Vesco
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Workshop Early Photography of the Middle East - In Contact with Collections
Workshop
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Slavery research on the up
An international congress, lectures and a new book series and magazine. It’s a hot topic at the moment that attracts broad public interest. Researchers, from historians to legal experts, are bringing together their expertise in the Leiden Slavery Studies Association.
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Charlotte van der Voort
Faculty of Humanities
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Fokelien Kootstra
Faculty of Humanities
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About
Leiden Center for the Study of Ancient Arabia
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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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The Ra's al-jinz project (Oman)
The Ra’s al-jinz project tackles economic diversification and social complexity in non-urban societies, from the perspective of Eastern Arabia, by exploring the Early Bronze Age settlement of Ra’s al-jinz RJ-3.
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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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Spectacle and Surveillance: The Making and Unmaking of Collective Visual History
What is the iconography of propaganda specifically as it relates to the historical development of political ideologies in modern Egypt and how was/is this propaganda disseminated among creative fields such as cinema, art, monuments, architecture, and literature?
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The Mesoamerican codex re-entangled: Production, use, and re-use of precolonial documents
This dissertation is concerned with the study of the less than twenty remaining precolonial Mesoamerican codices. By considering these rare and fragile pictographic and hieroglyphic books from the cultural biography perspective, many different aspects of these books can be studied.
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Hellenistic economic thought
This subproject of 'From Homo Economicus to Political Animal' analyzes Greek economic thinking of the Hellenistic period.
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About the programme
The MA Classics and Ancient Civilizations covers one year and can be studied in four tracks: Classics is one of them. While diving into the literary, cultural and intellectual worlds of Greece and Rome, you will be involved in current research, and stimulated to reflect on the significance of Classics…
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Panel discussions
At our regular panel discussions we bring together scholars and other experts to discuss a current topic that captures the interest of the general public as well as academics.
- Week 8: 23–28 February
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Tell Ibrahim Awad
Update : August 2017 Dr Willem van Haarlem
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Unending Variety: Papyrological Texts and Studies in Honour of Peter van Minnen
The subjects of the texts vary from Demosthenes to the delivery of camels in early Islamic Egypt, and their provenances stretch from the Eastern to the Western Desert, and from the Egyptian Nile valley to Qasr Ibrim in northern Nubia.
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Ripple in still water when there is no pebble tossed
This Festschrift in honour of Cary J. Martin
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Greek, Demotic and Coptic Papyri and Ostraca in the Leiden Papyrological Institute
This volume contains the first edition of 66 papyri and ostraca in the collection of the Leiden Papyrological Institute.
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Research
See more information below.
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Mission Statement
The Leiden Center for the Study of Ancient Arabia aims to promote research on the ancient languages and cultures of Arabia, and to disseminate this knowledge to the broader public.
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Hebrew and Aramaic Studies (research) (MA)
The research master's in Hebrew and Aramaic Studies, a specialisation of the Classics and Ancient Civilizations (Research) programme, at Leiden University explores Classical Hebrew and Aramaic Studies in the broadest sense.
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Research Areas
The Centre is the proud home of several research programmes.
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Network
LeiCenSAA is dedicated to the study of Ancient Arabia and the sharing of knowledge and expertise on this topic. Thefore it aims to collaborate closely with other research in the field.
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Hebrew and Aramaic Studies (MA)
The master's in Hebrew and Aramaic Studies, a specialisation of the Classics and Ancient Civilizations programme, at Leiden University explores Classical Hebrew and Aramaic Studies in the broadest sense.