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Archaeological Project Sheds Light on Ancient Water Management in Udhruh 31 October 2024In 2011, the Udhruh Archaeological Project was launched, bringing together teams of Jordanian and Dutch archaeologists to investigate the region and r...
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Highlighting Dutch-Jordanian archaeological cooperation in Udhruh 28 October 2024In 2011, the University of Hussein Bin Talal in Maan and Leiden University initiated the joint Udhruh Archaeological Project, led by Professors Fawzi ...
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Possibly the oldest known piece of figurative art found in Indonesia 11 July 2024A team of researchers has dated a prehistoric painting in Indonesia to at least 51.200 years ago, they have proposed in a study that this painting is ...
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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 2024
The 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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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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ROBUST AI programme receives 25 million euros from Dutch Research Council 10 January 2023The ROBUST consortium, which is the initiative of the Innovation Center for Artificial intelligence (ICAI), has received 25 million euros from the Dut...
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Two Leiden academics nominated for Person of the Year 05 January 2023Leiden academics Remco Breuker and Auke-Florian Hiemstra stand to win the title of Person of the Year. According to the Leidsch Dagblad newspaper, the...
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Are the brains of males different from those of females? Psychologists produce a podcast on brain research and mental health 20 December 2022Women are more often diagnosed with depression, whereas ADHD is much more frequently detected in men. And there are other more striking differences. W...
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Neanderthals changed ecosystems 125,000 years ago 15 December 2021Hunter-gatherers caused ecosystems to change 125,000 years ago. These are the findings of an interdisciplinary study by archaeologists from Leiden Uni...
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Aart Hendriks not ruling out compulsory vaccination 01 December 2021Now the number of people with COVID-19 is increasing and we are faced with stricter measures once again, the question arises whether compulsory vaccin...
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Leiden research into corona waste ends up in New York Times 18 November 2021Face masks and plastic gloves are supposed to protect us from corona, but they are becoming an increasing problem for the environment. In a special se...
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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...