page_title: Rijksmuseum van Oudheden
section_title: Current collection
hierarchical_section_title: Rijksmuseum van Oudheden / Current collection
caption_attribution_description: English: Celtic sword in Rijksmuseum van Oudheden, Leiden.Nederlands: Een verbogen Keltisch zwaard op het Leidse museum in Nederland.
context_page_description: 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 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 Netherlands.
context_section_description: 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.
caption: The original curved iron sword; the oldest iron object ever found in the Netherlands from the Vorstengraf (Oss)
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