433 search results for “ancient art” in the Student website
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Rescuing ancient rock art in Pakistan with a Prince Claus Heritage Emergency Grant
Pakistani archaeologist Abdul Ghani Khan (MPhil) and Dr Marike van Aerde (Leiden University) have been awarded the Prince Claus Heritage Emergency Grant for the rescue and preservation of ancient rock art in the Karakorum mountain range of the Pakistani Himalayas. The project will run for a year, from…
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Art HotiScience
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Ruurd HalbertsmaFaculty of Humanities
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LKV's Art Auction
Festival
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LAK arts and culture courses
Arts and leisure
- L.K.V. Art Auction 2022
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Holding the Byvanck Chair in times of corona
Professor Caroline Vout, Cambridge University, was awarded the Leiden University Byvanck Chair in 2020. In a pre-Covid-19 world, the Byvanck Chair would stay in Leiden for seminars, lectures, and research activities. Instead, the pandemic disrupted this schedule. Last month, Vout taught her masterclass…
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Willemijn WaalFaculty of Humanities
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Maarja SeireFaculty of Humanities
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Cornelis van TilburgFaculty of Humanities
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Mariëtte KeukenUniversitaire Bibliotheken Leiden
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Paul Beliën
Faculty of Humanities
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Da JinFaculty of Humanities
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Miko FlohrFaculty of Humanities
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Riccardo GiacconiFaculty of Humanities
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Gerhard-Jan NautaFaculty of Humanities
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Reinier BaarsenFaculty of Humanities
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Leiden University places sixth in QS Ranking Classics and Ancient History
The faculty of Humanities scores well in the anual QS World Universities Ranking By Subject list. This year we have placed sixth in the category Classics and Ancient History.
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Jan TeeuwisseFaculty of Humanities
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New series of Ancient World Lunch Talks
Research
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Lucy Bennison-ChapmanFaculty of Humanities
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Klaas WorpFaculty of Humanities
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Carolien van ZoestFaculty of Humanities
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Ancient DNA provides new insights into the early peopling of the Caribbean
According to a new study by an international team of researchers from the Caribbean, Europe and North America, the Caribbean was settled by several successive population dispersals that originated on the American mainland.
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Tazuko van BerkelFaculty of Humanities
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Leanne JansenFaculty of Humanities
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Kim BeerdenFaculty of Humanities
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Liesbeth ClaesFaculty of Humanities
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The ancient Egyptians were just like us
The people who lived in Saqqara, City of the Dead in Egypt, died thousands of years ago, but they are not all that different from us. This is what a study by the National Museum of Antiquities in Leiden, The Netherlands concludes. If you wanted to prove that you had good taste in ancient Egypt then…
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Edward GrasmanFaculty of Humanities
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Berkel receives Vidi for research into economics and anthropology in ancient Greece
University lecturer Tazuko van Berkel has obtained a Vidi grant of 800,000 euros. This will enable her to research the image of man that emerges from economic texts from ancient Greece.
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Minna ValjakkaFaculty of Humanities
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Aagje GosligaFaculty of Humanities
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Shenghao YueFaculty of Humanities
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Peter BisschopFaculty of Humanities
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Lucien van BeekFaculty of Humanities
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Ben HaringFaculty of Humanities
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Anita KeizersUniversitaire Bibliotheken Leiden
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Roosmarie VlaskampFaculteit Archeologie
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KNIR Field School: Exploring Mountain Society in Ancient Samnium
Education
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Innovative research offers new insight into ancient infant feeding practices
New sampling and analytical strategies give archaeologists a better understanding of the nutrition and survival of ancient populations. Publication in PLOS One.
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Jürgen ZangenbergFaculty of Humanities
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Approaching ancient Assyria through archaeology leads to new insights
Dr Bleda Düring deemed it was time for an archaeological approach on the imperialisation of Assyria. ‘While there are lot of archaeological studies of Assyrian sites, they are not really trying to address this broader picture of imperialism and how this imperialisation actually worked.’ These imperialisation…
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Podcast Finally Friday with ancient-fire expert Femke Reidsma
Pyrotechnology – the manipulation and control of fire – is one of the defining characteristics of humanity, and has impacted nearly every technology that we used in the past and study archaeologically in the present. Our PhD researcher Femke Reidsma joined EXARC's podcast for May’s #FinallyFriday to…
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Hugo DeBlockFaculty of Humanities
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Helen WestgeestFaculty of Humanities
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Anne van DamFaculty of Humanities
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Heino van RijnberkFaculty of Humanities
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Jac AartsFaculteit Archeologie
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Irene VikatouFaculteit Archeologie