Dorestad and Everything After
Ports, townscapes & travellers in Europe, 800-1100
Edited by Annemarieke Willemsen & Hanneke Kik | 2025
Dorestad was the largest town of the Low Countries in the Carolingian era. As an inland port on the edge of the Frankish Empire, it functioned as an international hub, connecting the North Sea World…
Roman villas
New perspectives on villa development in Northwestern Europe
Edited by Jasper de Bruin | 2025
The Dutch province of Limburg, as it exists now, once bordered the frontier zone of the Roman Empire. It was known for its fertile soils, where, especially in the south, a villa landscape developed during…
The lost mummy of Djedhor
Reconstructing the burial of a Ptolemaic priest from Thebes
Maarten J. Raven | 2025
In the rich archives of the Leiden Museum of Antiquities lies a fascinating manuscript dealing with the autopsy on an Ancient Egyptian mummy. This was performed in 1878 by the Museum’s curator Willem Pleyte. Thanks…
Roman Pottery in the Low Countries
Past Research, Current State, Future Directions
Edited by Roderick C.A. Geerts & Philip Bes | 2024
This edited volume was written on the occasion of the 33rd Congress of the Rei Cretariæ Romanæ Fautores (www.fautores.org), which was held in September 2024 in Leiden, and offers a status quaestionis of Roman pottery…
Larger than Life
The Ommerschans hoard and the role of giant swords in the European Bronze Age (1500-1100 BC)
Edited by Luc W.S.W. Amkreutz & David Fontijn | 2024
In 1896 a remarkable hoard was discovered near Ommerschans in the eastern Netherlands that included a spectacular object: a giant bronze sword. It was obtained by the landowner and kept by a forester, until it…
Five New Kingdom Tombs at Saqqara
Maarten J. Raven | 2024
The five tombs dealt with in this book were explored between 2009 and 2017 by the Leiden-Turin Expedition in the New Kingdom necropolis of Saqqara. All of them can be described as minor tombs, constructed…
Style and Society in the Prehistory of West Asia
Essays in Honour of Olivier P. Nieuwenhuyse
Edited by Bleda S. Düring and Peter M.M.G. Akkermans | 2023
Olivier Nieuwenhuyse was a remarkable archaeologist whose work has transformed the study of later Neolithic societies in West Asia. He has inspired many colleagues and students in their own pursuit of archaeology. Through the analysis…
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Dorestad and Everything After
Ports, townscapes & travellers in Europe, 800-1100
Edited by Annemarieke Willemsen & Hanneke Kik | 2025
Dorestad was the largest town of the Low Countries in the Carolingian era. As an inland port on the edge of the Frankish Empire, it functioned as an international hub, connecting the North Sea World…
Roman villas
New perspectives on villa development in Northwestern Europe
Edited by Jasper de Bruin | 2025
The Dutch province of Limburg, as it exists now, once bordered the frontier zone of the Roman Empire. It was known for its fertile soils, where, especially in the south, a villa landscape developed during…
The lost mummy of Djedhor
Reconstructing the burial of a Ptolemaic priest from Thebes
Maarten J. Raven | 2025
In the rich archives of the Leiden Museum of Antiquities lies a fascinating manuscript dealing with the autopsy on an Ancient Egyptian mummy. This was performed in 1878 by the Museum’s curator Willem Pleyte. Thanks…
Roman Pottery in the Low Countries
Past Research, Current State, Future Directions
Edited by Roderick C.A. Geerts & Philip Bes | 2024
This edited volume was written on the occasion of the 33rd Congress of the Rei Cretariæ Romanæ Fautores (www.fautores.org), which was held in September 2024 in Leiden, and offers a status quaestionis of Roman pottery…
Larger than Life
The Ommerschans hoard and the role of giant swords in the European Bronze Age (1500-1100 BC)
Edited by Luc W.S.W. Amkreutz & David Fontijn | 2024
In 1896 a remarkable hoard was discovered near Ommerschans in the eastern Netherlands that included a spectacular object: a giant bronze sword. It was obtained by the landowner and kept by a forester, until it…
Five New Kingdom Tombs at Saqqara
Maarten J. Raven | 2024
The five tombs dealt with in this book were explored between 2009 and 2017 by the Leiden-Turin Expedition in the New Kingdom necropolis of Saqqara. All of them can be described as minor tombs, constructed…
Style and Society in the Prehistory of West Asia
Essays in Honour of Olivier P. Nieuwenhuyse
Edited by Bleda S. Düring and Peter M.M.G. Akkermans | 2023
Olivier Nieuwenhuyse was a remarkable archaeologist whose work has transformed the study of later Neolithic societies in West Asia. He has inspired many colleagues and students in their own pursuit of archaeology. Through the analysis…
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