In the media
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Short documentary on 50 years archaeology in Oss 22 May 2024In the student-made documentary, our Field School manager, Dr Arjan Louwen, gives a brief introduction on the importance of the excavation in Oss. Wat...
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Miko Flohr in BBC documentary about Pompeii 23 April 2024University lecturer Miko Flohr talks in a new BBC documentary about how people responded to the eruption of 79, and on whether or not they were excava...
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A fire-starting masterclass by Dr. Andrew Sorensen on Archeology Quest 25 March 2024Hosts and creators of the Nebula tv series ‘Archeology Quest’ Lorraine Boissoneault and Stephanie Sammann compete to see if they could have survived d...
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Udhruh archaeological project on TV in Jordan 14 March 2024The Udhruh archaeological project in Jordan was recently visited by Diala Dabbas for her program ‘Helwa ya Donya’ (which translates to ‘Beautiful Univ...
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Acquisition of early African photographs by explorer and photography pioneer Alexine Tinne 15 February 2024Over 160 years ago, the Hague-based photography pioneer and traveler Alexine Tinne (1835-1869) captured current South Sudan and its inhabitants on fil...
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Andrew Gawthorpe in the Financial Times about the Republican primaries 01 February 2024University lecturer Andrew Gawthorpe is quoted in a Financial Times article on the Republican primaries.
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Archaeologist interviewed about the carnivore diet 22 January 2024The carnivore diet, a fact or just a trend?
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Leiden archaeologists mentioned in Top 13 Discoveries in Human Evolution during 2023 21 December 2023In a recent article published on PLOS, Drs. Briana Pobiner and Ryan McRae of the Smithsonian Institution National Museum of Natural History discuss th...
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Vote now! Doggerland book nominated for Current Archaeology Book prize 2024 11 December 2023Britain'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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Oddly-shaped medieval vessels found all over the Islamic world have puzzled archaeologists for decades. 04 December 2023'When taking into account all finds in the Islamic world of this enigmatic vessel, it would perhaps be wise not to restrict this container to merely o...
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Excavation of Roman villa on Mallorca covered by Catalan and Spanish news outlets 14 September 2023The Villa Son Sard archaeological project aims to determine the boundaries of the Roman and post-Roman villa at Son Sard on Mallorca. While the team w...
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Ancient fire expert Femke Reidsma on Tea-Break Time Travel Podcast 11 September 2023In her podcast Tea-Break Time Travel Matilda Siebrecht is joined by fire expert Femke Reidsma, to talk all about how this essential tool was made and ...
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Secrets of the skull 06 September 2023The Research Institute for Mathematics & Computer Science in Amsterdam hosts a unique X-ray machine that creates 3D scans of the most diverse objects....
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Alistair Kefford on French television on the future of European cities 19 June 2023What does the retail crisis mean for the future of Europe's urban centres? Assistant professor Alistair Kefford answers this very question in the Fren...
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Exploring Jordan's archaeology from a bird's eye view 25 May 2023Sufyan Al Karaimeh, a guest researcher at the Faculty of Archaeology, is currently involved in the Aerial Archaeology in Jordan (AAJ) Project. Over th...