Rijksmuseum van Oudheden
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The Rijksmuseum van Oudheden 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 Facu
Dutch National Museum of Antiquities in Leiden
Egyptian collections of Rijksmuseum van Oudheden
Ancient Egyptian sarcophagus at RMO
Ipuwer Papyrus describing the socio-political turmoil of ancient Egypt during one of its intermediary periods
Caspar Reuvens
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Caspar Jacob Christiaan Reuvens was a Dutch historian and archaeologist. He was the founding director of the Rijksmuseum van Oudheden in Leiden, the world's first ever professor of archaeology, and co
Rijksmuseum van Oudheden
…was put on public display but poorly cared for until half a century later when it would finally get an official curator. This curator was classicist Caspar Reuvens, the world's first archaeology professor. Along with his duties as a professor at the university came the care of the archaeological cabinet, then…
Professor Caspar J.C. Reuvens
Caspar Jacob Christian Reuvens