A new exhibition at the Dutch National Museum of Antiquities, from April 2024
Around two thousand years ago, there were numerous of Roman villas, as the...
A new exhibition at the Dutch National Museum of Antiquities, from April 2024
On 25 April 2024, the exhibition ‘Paestum. City of Goddesses’ will open at the...
New winter exhibition in Dutch National Museum of Antiquities
This winter, the Dutch National Museum of Antiquities (Rijksmuseum van Oudheden in Leiden) is going back...
Between October 2022 and March 2023, Rijksmuseum van Oudheden in Leiden hosted a major exhibition called ‘Byblos, The World’s Most Ancient Port’.
What began around...
A 17-metre-long, 3000-year-old Egyptian papyrus roll full of magic spells, gods and symbols: this is the ‘Book of the Dead’ of Qenna, a merchant from ancient Egypt. It is the longest papyrus in the collection of the Rijksmuseum van Oudheden (the Dutch National Museum of Antiquities) in Leiden.
