An archaeologist as a modern-day shaman. An unexpected comparison Professor by Special Appointment of Public Archaeology Luc Amkreutz will make in his inaugural lecture.

Professor Beatrice de Graaf held the 53rd Huizinga Lecture on Thursday 12 December. In front of a a sold-out Stadsgehoorzaal, she spoke about how history can be used in times of crisis to give meaning to the situation.

You may follow the Graduation Ceremony live via Teams.

You may follow the Graduation Ceremony live via Teams.

You may follow the Graduation Ceremony live via Teams.

The Graduation Ceremony will be live streamed. The video will appear on this page right before the ceremony starts.

Lecture, Research Seminar Medieval and Early Modern History

Lipsius, Cleveringaplaats 1, 2311 BD, Leiden

Professor Joanita Vroom, together with the Royal Netherlands Institute in Rome (KNIR) offered the course Byzantine Rome in September 2023. The course, co-taught by Vroom, Letty ten Harkel and various guest lecturers, investigated the transition of the city of Rome from Late Antiquity to the Middle Ages,…

Martin Berger was asked by the FIFA Museum in Zürich to help develop an exposition on the origins of football. In line with his expertise, he worked on the part of the online exposition that was about the Mesoamerican ballgame.

The symposium will be streamed on YouTube and Zoom. See for more information the Palloures project website.

Introduction by Jan Kolen To inform: Promotion policy academic staff and presentation Faculty Career Committee (Jan Kolen en Jan Pronk) Addendum Faculty Strategic Plan 2026-2028 (Jan Kolen) Research Visitation (Amanda Henry) Policy on Professorships (Jan Kolen) To discuss: Impact CAO (collective…

It is late June, and on a windy meadow north of Leiden known as the Vrouw Vennepolder a group of archaeology students just hit the last ice age. Considering this involves manually pushing a ground core to a depth of 10 meters, this is no small feat. Even so, the taking of ground samples in this, at…

Lecture | Leiden Lectures on Arabic Language & Culture

This year the Faculty of Archaeology celebrated 50 years of archaeological collaboration with Oss. This End of Year event, therefore, offers a great opportunity for a festive conclusion. We would like to invite you to this joyous event with an Oss-related programme on Tuesday December the…

Course, ARCHON Workshop

On 1 December, the Faculty of Archaeology, the Center for Digital Scholarship and ARCHON organise a training on Research Data Management. The training is aimed at PhDs and RMAs in the first phase of their research, but is open to all archeology researchers interested. Programme Information session:…

Gemeente Oss, Universiteit Leiden, Stichting Metaaltijdenonderzoek NL en Rijksdienst voor het Cultureel Erfgoed nodigen je uit in Oss. Het congres ‘Grootschalig Archeologisch Landschapsonderzoek – Verleden en Toekomst´ sluit het jubileumjaar ‘50 jaar Archeologie Oss’ af. Vijftig jaar geleden werd een…

The Leiden Faculty of Archaeology is an institution of international renown. Frequently, researchers from other places of learning visit the faculty to broaden and deepen their own expertise. Currently, the Laboratory for Human Osteoarchaeology is hosting two scholars from Egypt, Samar Abudahab and…

End of Year Event

During World War II, the Nazi’s ordered a coastal defensive line to be built from the south of France to Norway. This Atlantik Wall aimed to defend their territories in continental Europe from an Allied naval invasion. The defensive line went right through the Dutch city of The Hague. The material remains…

This ceremony will be streamed live on this page.

‘I was very happy and honoured that my thesis was recognised as a valuable contribution to the topic of landscape archaeology.’

Forty archaeology students are holding a shovel somewhat awkwardly in the fields at Oss. This is their first day of fieldwork and they are going to use muscles they didn’t even know they had.

The past two years, Laura van der Knaap and Professor Karsten Lambers worked on creating open teaching materials on agent-based modeling, funded by Erasmus+ and in collaboration with Danish, Irish and Dutch partners. Programming is an important skill involved in this, which is often seen as intimidating…

New archaeological research into grave goods and skeletal material from the oldest grave field in the Netherlands shows that male-female roles 7,000 words ago were less traditional than was thought. The research was conducted by a multidisciplinary team of researchers led by Archol, the National Museum…

Dr Alex Geurds was elected as a Fellow for the Society of Antiquaries, a prestigious and old educational charity based in London. Established in 1707, the society aims at the encouragement and advancement of the study and knowledge of the antiquities.

In the article “Neanderthals and Us: We’re More Alike Than Once Thought”, we are reminded that many negative traits, from unintelligent to unsophisticated, have long been attributed to Neanderthals in popular culture. However, recent studies bring to light an ever-increasing amount of evidence contradicting…

AI is more and more commonly used in Education, by students (correctly and incorrectly), but also by educators. To ensure up-to-date knowledge on this topic for everyone, Aris, Roos and Rachel together with LLInC have organised a workshop on the 30th of September, 15:00 to 17:00 hours (room to be announced).…

LUC historian Jacqueline Hylkema unmasks forgeries from the early modern Dutch Republic in the research project "Mapping the Fake Republic".

In February 2015 Lauren Lauret started her PhD project titled 'Meeting practices of the Dutch States General and the continuity of the early modern world of the political (1780-1848)' at the Institute for History, supervised by prof. H. te Velde.

Lecture, Ancient History Research Seminar