In the media
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Dr. Kuijpers in Science Magazine: 'This is a blow to the idea that elites were running the show' 30 June 2021A new study sugggests that through informal networks, Mesopotamian merchants established a standardized system of weights that later spread across Eur...
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Dr. Henry in Nature: How Ancient People Fell in Love with Carbs 30 June 2021In 2011, Dr. Amanda Henry published her findings from dental plaque picked from the teeth of Neanderthals who were buried in Iran and Belgium between ...
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Skeletal Evidence for Malaria in the Medieval Netherlands 30 June 2021Until very recently malaria was an impactful disease in the Netherlands. While currently mainly regarded as a tropical disease, references to symptoms...
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Podcast Finally Friday with ancient-fire expert Femke Reidsma 02 June 2021Pyrotechnology – the manipulation and control of fire – is one of the defining characteristics of humanity, and has impacted nearly every technology t...
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Karsten Lambers in Vice: 'Whoever built those geoglyphs was unaware of their relative size on a global scale' 02 June 2021Geoglyphs decorate the ground near the town of Boha, India, and add up a total distance of about 30 miles. They were discovered by Carlo and Yohann Oe...
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Dr. Andrew Sorensen at University of the Netherlands: Lecture on Ancient Fire-Use 27 May 2021When is the last time you made a fire? Not light a candle with a match, but an actual fire from scratch. Thousands of years ago, humans already made f...
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In the media: Prof. Dr. Joanita Vroom about the Van Steenis depot 27 May 2021In a closed room in the Van Steenis building, hundreds of boxes are waiting under fluorescent lights for someone to come and see them. The jumble of h...
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Podcast 'Talk That Science' with Maikel Kuijpers as guest 25 May 2021Talk That Science, a podcast with the aim of presenting science in a challenging, new and relevant way. They do this by combining music and science. T...
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Symposium Findings Chalcolithic site Palloures 28 April 2021Discoveries at the Chalcolithic site Palloures, Cyprus will be presented to the public in free, online symposium next month. A team of archaeologi...
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Archaeologist Andy Sorensen in National Geographic Magazine about ancient fire use 10 February 2021When and how commenced the use of fire by early humans? Armed with stones, peat moss, and fungi, archaeologist Andy Sorensen tries to answer that ques...
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Leiden archaeologists in international media on early form of money in the Bronze Age 28 January 2021People in the Early Bonze Age used bronze artefacts as a means of payment. This is the conclusion reached by archaeologists Maikel Kuijpers and Catali...
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Archaeologist Maikel Kuijpers reflects on academic feud over Nebra sky disc 20 January 2021In a New York Times report on a bitter archaeological feud over the Nebra sky disk, Maikel Kuijpers reflects on its importance. 'It’s really unfortuna...
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Dental remains shed light on drug use in 19th century Dutch village 11 January 2021Archaeologist Bjørn Peare Barthold suspected farmers in a doctorless 19th century Dutch village may have been self-medicating to manage pain and disea...
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Leiden Classics: Einstein & Friends 25 September 2015
Museum Boerhaave commemorated the hundredth anniversary of Einstein’s Theory of General Relativity with the exhibition ‘Einstein & Friends’. The exhib...