Egypt
- Ancient Egyptian Epigraphy puts the student in front of the inscribed hieroglyphic documents and monuments of ancient Egypt, in their concrete reality as written artifacts, which […]
- This course will introduce students to the hieroglyphic script and the basic grammar of the classical phase of the ancient Egyptian language (Middle Egyptian). A core […]
- The course aims to explore aspects of ancient Egyptian language and culture through the reading and analysis of textual, literary or documentary sources of low-medium difficulty, […]
- The course aims to analyze aspects of hieratic writing and ancient Egyptian culture through the reading and analysis of textual sources. The course will examine various […]
- The aim of the course is to stimulate an in-depth ability to discuss matters inherent the social history and material culture of Ancient Egypt. This course […]
Western Asia
- The course provides an overview of the history of art, architecture, urban planning, main monuments, repertoires of daily used objects of the Mesopotamian cultures, between the […]
- The course takes an emphatically interdisciplinary approach and focuses on the intersections, over the centuries, between peoples that can be traced back to Iranian culture and […]
- The course takes an emphatically interdisciplinary approach and focuses on the intersections, over the centuries, between peoples that can be traced back to Iranian culture and […]
- This class explores the relationship between the formation and the spread of Mycenaean cultural identity throughout the Aegean region and the development of state level complex […]
History of Religions
- Since religion is a complex cultural phenomenon that impacts our lives as both individuals and society, its knowledge becomes crucial for an understanding of the world […]
Geoarchaeology
- The geological matrix which embeds cultural remains is an extraordinary source of information about human behaviour and environmental change. The objective of the Geoarchaeology course is […]
Laboratory
- The Laboratory of Field Methods for Near Eastern Archaeology aims to provide students with the practical and theoretical knowledge to deal with an archaeological excavation in […]
- The laboratory aims to increase students’ familiarity with the vivid character of Egyptian written culture in the classical form of the language and will engage in […]
Past Courses, currently not active
- Introduction to Near Eastern Comparative Codicology (Hebrew, Armenian, Arabic, Coptic, Syriac, Ethiopian). The materials and their characteristics; types and formats of books; binding; layout; paleography; colophons; […]
- Hittite is a member of the Anatolian branch of the Indo-European family, and the earliest attested Indo-European language. Anatolian is generally regarded as the first branch […]
- The Laboratory of Near Eastern Archaeology is committed to the study of the material evidence of ancient Near Eastern cultures, offering students the opportunity to become acquainted […]
- Museum collections are often perceived as static entities hidden away in storerooms or trapped behind showcases. By focusing on the dynamic histories of museum collections new […]
