Faculty of Classics - University of Cambridge
Text only version
Main Navigation
Archaeological Research in the Faculty of Classics
The searchable database of sherds for researchers is now available. Click here.
Archaeological research within the Faculty of Classics covers a broad temporal and geographical spectrum, and explores diverse theoretical and methodological approaches. The periods covered extend from the Neolithic to the Byzantine, and the geographical span extends from northern Africa to Britain, and from the Near East to the Iberian peninsula. Approaches to Ancient Art cover a similarly broad range.
The Faculty has five permanent University Teaching Officers, as well as several Research Associates and Fellows carrying out archaeological projects in various areas of Classical Archaeology. Other members and associates of the Faculty in other subject areas also carry out archaeologically-related work. The Museum provides financial support for these activities.
The major areas and periods in which research is currently focused are: Aegean prehistory; Archaic and Classical Greece and their neighbours; Hellenistic Greece; Etruria; Rome; Roman Italy; Roman Egypt; Carthage; and Roman Britain. Major themes of research within the Faculty include: survey methodologies; landscape archaeology; mortuary customs; cultural interactions; and urbanism.
The research group has strong links with other research areas of the Faculty of Classics (eg. Ancient History, and Mycenaean scripts) and is also well integrated with other groups of archaeologists in Cambridge (in the McDonald Institute for Archaeological Research, and in the Faculties of Archaeology & Anthropology, Oriental Studies and Divinity).
Classical Archaeology is taught to undergraduates within the Classical Tripos, and to postgraduates through the MPhil programme. There is also a thriving group of PhD students. Enquiries are welcomed from those wishing to study here.
