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Spring back to life

Thursday, 11 April, 2024 - 14:00 to 16:00

An afternoon of family-friendly activities this Easter


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Relaxed drawing (students)

Wednesday, 28 February, 2024 - 17:30 to 19:30

Join us at the Museum of Classical Archaeology for a relaxed evening of statues and sketching. We'll provide the drawing materials, the inspiration (in the form of our classical casts) and the odd glass of wine. This event is organised with MOCASoc and the Painting and Drawing Society and is open to students only. book-...


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Bridging Binaries LGBTQ+ Tour

Saturday, 9 March, 2024 - 11:00 to 12:00

Saturday 9 March 2024, 11am-12 From queens, emperors and divine beings, to scientists, artists and global communities, explore the spectrum of identities that exist across time, place and culture in Cambridge collections. How do labels and categories affect the stories we choose to tell, or how we connect with each other...


Read more at: Bridging Binaries LGBTQ+ Tour
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Bridging Binaries LGBTQ+ Tour

Saturday, 24 February, 2024 - 11:00 to 12:00

Saturday 24 February 2024, 11am-12 From queens, emperors and divine beings, to scientists, artists and global communities, explore the spectrum of identities that exist across time, place and culture in Cambridge collections. How do labels and categories affect the stories we choose to tell, or how we connect with each...


Read more at: Is being a tyrant good for you?
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Is being a tyrant good for you?

Wednesday, 27 March, 2024 - 13:15 to 14:00

Wednesday 27 March 2024, 1.15-2pm Being subject to a Greek tyrant was bad, but was being a tyrant yourself good if you could get away with it? Join Il-Kweon Sir for this lunchtime foray into those early Greek lyric poets who, living in the age of tyrants, explore the almost irresistible allure of tyranny – but also its...


Read more at: Knives out! How iron was first used in the eastern Mediterranean and western Anatolia
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Knives out! How iron was first used in the eastern Mediterranean and western Anatolia

Tuesday, 26 March, 2024 - 13:15 to 14:00

Tuesday 26 March 2024, 1.15-2pm Our society relies heavily on the manipulation of Earth’s rich natural resources. Steel, an alloy of iron and carbon, is a great example of this. But the technological road from working the first iron objects to the ultimate stainless steels of today was long and bumpy. Join Jana Mokrisova...


Read more at: York Beneath the Streets: A fortress city in the Roman Empire
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York Beneath the Streets: A fortress city in the Roman Empire

Wednesday, 20 March, 2024 - 13:15 to 14:00

Wednesday 20 March 2024, 1.15-2pm Join Thomas Matthews Boehmer as he shines a light on the urban history of York (Eboracum), the most northerly provincial capital of the Roman Empire. By combining the results from new geophysics, recent excavations and older investigations, this talk demonstrates how new stories are...


Read more at: Tales from the trowel’s edge: New archaeological sites on the island of Samos
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Tales from the trowel’s edge: New archaeological sites on the island of Samos

Tuesday, 19 March, 2024 - 13:15 to 14:00

Tuesday 19 March 2024, 1.15-2pm Since 2021, the West Area of Samos Archaeological Project has been working on the Greek island of Samos, discovering and documenting brand-new archaeological sites. Join the project’s Field Director as he dishes the dirt on how this exciting project is changing our understanding of ancient...


Read more at: Writing for display in the ancient world
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Writing for display in the ancient world

Friday, 15 March, 2024 - 13:15 to 14:00

Friday 15 March 2024, 1.15-2pm Writing isn’t just a way of recording and communicating language. From ancient times, it has been used to make a statement visually. Join members of the Visual Interactions in Early Writing Systems (VIEWS) Project to explore the uses of writing in art, monuments and ideology in the ancient...


Read more at: Twilight with the Museums: The Great Olympus Heist
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Twilight with the Museums: The Great Olympus Heist

Thursday, 22 February, 2024 - 17:00 to 19:00

Will you dare to enter Mount Olympus and steal fire from the gods? Join us as we open late and turn out the lights for Twilight at the museum.


Latest news

Election of two new Professors in the Faculty of Classics

27 March 2024

The Faculty is delighted to announce the election of Professor Josephine (Jo) Crawley Quinn to the Professorship of Ancient History and Professor Serafina Cuomo to the A. G. Leventis Professorship of Greek Culture . Jo will join the Faculty on 1 January 2025 and will be the first woman to hold the Professorship of Ancient...

Craven Seminar 2024

26 March 2024

The programme for the Craven Seminar 2024, ‘Interface Interpretation: exegesis as encounter in Greco-Roman literature’ , is now available online . This will be an in-person event. Please click here to register.

Classical Equalities Lecture 25 April 2024 at 17.00 in G19

4 March 2024

Jane Draycott will be giving this year’s Classical Equalities lecture, on ‘ Prostheses in Classical Antiquity: Everything You Never Knew You Wanted To Know’. Jane Draycott is Lecturer in Ancient History at the University of Glasgow. Her research investigates science, technology, and medicine in the ancient world. She has...

Soundmarks Project

12 February 2024

Soundmarks, an art/archaeology collaboration between Rose Ferraby, Cambridge Archaeologist, and Rob St John using sound and visual art launches at DIG in York. In 2019 the pair created work exploring and animating the sub-surface landscape of Aldborough Roman Town in North Yorkshire, UK. Soundmarks Aldborough was re-shown...