Leiden - Het jaar 1000

The Rijksmuseum van Oudheden (English: National Museum of Antiquities) is the national archaeological museum of the Netherlands, located in Leiden. It grew out of the collection of Leiden University and still closely co-operates with its Faculty of Archaeology. The museum calls itself "the national centre for archaeology" and focuses on ancient Egypt, the ancient Near East, the classical world of Greece, Etruria and Rome and the early (prehistoric, Roman and Medieval) Netherlands.

 

The current collection of the museum is divided in the following categories:

 

Ancient Egypt

Ancient Near East

Etruscan civilization

Ancient Greece

Ancient Rome

Prehistoric Netherlands

Roman Netherlands

Medieval Netherlands

 

In the central hall of the museum stands an original Egyptian temple, the Temple of Taffeh, which was taken apart in Egypt and reconstructed in the museum as part of the International Campaign to Save the Monuments of Nubia.

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