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ACE Masters courses provide options for advanced training in human evolution, Old World prehistory, human palaeoecology, archaeological sciences, the archaeology, languages and cultures of the Mediterranean, the Ancient Near East and Egypt, the history, cultures and receptions of ancient Greece and Rome, and ancient Greek and Latin.
Since then, various combined courses have also been developed including: Classics and modern languages; Ancient and modern history (AMH); and; Classical archaeology and ancient history (CAAH). In 2004 the full lit. hum. course was revised; students examined since 2008 now choose eight papers from a wide range of subject areas:
The Institute for the Study of the Ancient World (ISAW) is a center for advanced scholarly research and graduate education at New York University.ISAW's mission is to cultivate comparative, connective investigations of the ancient world from the western Mediterranean to China. [1]
Classical archaeology is the archaeological investigation of the Mediterranean civilizations of Ancient Greece and Ancient Rome. [1] Nineteenth-century archaeologists such as Heinrich Schliemann were drawn to study the societies they had read about in Latin and Greek texts.
The Institute continued and expanded the activities of Brown’s former Center for Old World Archaeology and Art (COWAA), which Sharp Joukowsky directed until her retirement in 2004. [5] COWAA was founded in 1978 by R. Ross Holloway , professor of classics and Rudolf Winkes, historian of ancient Roman art. [ 6 ]
Archaeology is the study of human activity in the past, primarily through the recovery and analysis of the material culture and environmental data that they have left behind, which includes artifacts, architecture, biofacts (also known as eco-facts) and cultural landscapes (the archaeological record).
The history of the museum begins before the museum was established. The founder of the university's collection of artifacts was Francis Kelsey, a professor of Latin at the University of Michigan from 1889 until his death in 1927. [3] [4] Kelsey began acquiring artifacts in 1893 in order to help his students understand the ancient world. [5]
The School is engaged in teaching and research in the three disciplines of history, classics and archaeology. It consists of three research centres: [1] Centre for the Study of Modern and Contemporary History; Edinburgh Centre for Global History; Centre for Medieval and Renaissance Studies