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Study Details: MSc: 1 year full-time, 2 years part-time
The taught MSc in Archaeology offers a wide range of course options, which can be tailored to suit your particular interests and requirements.
These entry requirements are for the 2026-27 academic year and requirements for future academic years may differ. Entry requirements for the 2027-28 academic year will be published on 1 Oct 2026.
A UK 2:1 honours degree, a minimum US 3.25 GPA or international equivalent, in a subject related to this programme, preferably Archaeology or Classical Archaeology, or another degree in which Archaeology figures prominently (such as Anthropology in the case of applicants from the USA).
We will also consider an undergraduate degree in some other subjects such as History, Classics, Ancient History, and Geography if your personal statement demonstrates how you are equipped to undertake the programme.
Relevant experience, or professional or other qualifications will also be considered.
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The compulsory course is:
Research Sources and Strategies in Archaeology
Option courses
Option courses previously offered include those listed below:
Archaeological Illustration
Archaeomaterials Analysis
Bronze Age Civilisations of the Near East and Greece
Archaeology of 'Celtic' Europe: Communities and Interactions
The Hittites: The Archaeology of an Ancient Near Eastern Civilisation
Human Evolution
Conceptualising the Neolithic
Conflict archaeology: materialities of violence
Biomolecular Archaeology: the appliance of science
Issues in Egyptian Archaeology: the Second Intermediate Period until the end of the Late Period
Quantitative Methods and Reasoning in Archaeology
Archaeology of Late Antique Religion
Handling Greek Pottery
Ancient Egyptian Hieroglyphs: The Basics and Beyond
Ancient Egyptian Hieroglyphs II: Texts and Contexts
The Archaeology of Children and Childhood
The Archaeology of Technology: from Prehistory to the Present
Theoretical Archaeology
Space, Place and Time: the archaeology of built environments
Practical Zooarchaeology
Themes in Egyptian archaeology: the foundations of the state to the end of the Middle Kingdom
Mariners, Monks and Mobility: the archaeology of the early medieval Atlantic Archipelago
Marine Archaeology
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