News

3 February 2025
Call for NINO Postdoctoral Fellowship 2025
NINO offers a postdoctoral position in ANE archaeology for the duration of two years. Apply until 15 March 2025! Fellowship starts September 2025.
Funding
30 January 2025
Best BA and MA Thesis on the Ancient Near East, 2023-2024
◊ BA Thesis, First Prize: Louise van der Vlugt ◊ BA Thesis, First Runner-up: Tara Sikkel ◊ MA Thesis, First Prize: Nolke Tasma ◊ MA Thesis, First Runner-up...
Funding
20 December 2024
NINO-nieuwsbrief december 2024
Nieuws van het NINO-onderzoekscentrum, uit de MEL/NINO-bibliotheek, over grantees, funding, nieuwe medewerkers en fellows, en meer
Newsletter
19 December 2024
New permanent RMO exhibition “Ancient Middle East”
The Rijksmuseum van Oudheden, Leiden, has a new permanent exhibition “Ancient Middle East”. NINO is very pleased that the new exhibition includes 44 objects...
Collection
Unseen-Untold conference (poster image)
18 December 2024
Unseen—Untold: abstracts
Marta Kaczanowicz (Warsaw University, Poland) Keynote: Things That Were Reused, People Who Reused Them The theme of reuse, its traces in archaeological material...
MEL study places
28 November 2024
NINO study places permanently reserved in Middle Eastern Library
As of today, a number of study places in the Middle Eastern Library (MEL) Reading Room is permanently reserved for those who are actively using the NINO library...
Library
26 November 2024
Photo exhibition “Horvat Kur” at NINO
Fieldwork at Horvat Kur was carried out between 2008 and 2018 under the direction of Jürgen Zangenberg as part of the Kinneret Regional Project, an...
16 October 2024
Podcast: Ancient cuneiform tablets reveal their secrets
UBLpodcast: Caroline Waerzeggers talks about her fascination with the Böhl Collection of cuneiform inscriptions and what they tell us about the long-lost...
Collection
15 October 2024
NINO-nieuwsbrief oktober 2024
Nieuwe directeur: Miriam Müller; Middle Eastern Library en Herta Mohr-gebouw feestelijk ingehuldigd; funding reports; publicaties over NINO-collecties; nieuws...
Newsletter
8 October 2024
Highlights from the NINO Collections
Publication
31 August 2024
extra NINO-nieuwsbrief 17 augustus 2024
85 jaar NINO! Speciale editie van onze nieuwsbrief met herinneringen en foto's
Newsletter
15 August 2024
New: NVIC/NINO PhD scholarship
We are very happy to announce that as of this year, NVIC and NINO offer a joint PhD scholarship. The PhD student will conduct their research at the NVIC in...
Funding