You will take several courses across two semesters of teaching, including a compulsory course and a range of optional courses. Core coursesThe compulsory course provides a general introduction to graduate study in archaeology and enables you to develop your research skills.The compulsory course for this programme is:Course nameCreditsResearch Sources and Strategies in Archaeology20Option coursesYou will choose a further 100 credits from a wide selection of optional courses, subject to availability. Option Courses 2025-2026* * Please note that the list of courses below is provisional and subject to change. Further information and course details can be found on the Degree Programme Table.Course nameCreditsAncient Egyptian Hieroglyphs: The Basics and Beyond20Archaeological Illustration20Archaeology of 'Celtic' Europe: Communities and Interactions20Biomolecular Archaeology: the appliance of science20Bronze Age Civilisations of the Near East and Greece20Conflict archaeology: materialities of violence20Data Science for the Past: Statistical Thinking & Visualization20GIS and Spatial Analysis for Archaeologists20Heritage Studies and the Archaeology of the Contemporary World: Investigating How the Past Shapes the Present20Island Worlds: Prehistoric Societies in the Mediterranean Sea from the Palaeolithic to the Iron Age20Judaea under Roman Rule20Marine Archaeology20Practical Zooarchaeology20Ritual and Monumentality in North-West Europe: Mid-6th to Mid-3rd Millennium BC20Roman Archaeology20Social Bioarchaeology: Living Conditions, Lifestyles and the Impact of Disease in the Past20Space, Place and Time: the archaeology of built environments20The Archaeology of Children and Childhood20The Athenian Akropolis20The Hellenistic City20The Hittites: The Archaeology of an Ancient Near Eastern Civilisation20The Neo-Hittite Kingdoms: A World between Empires20Themes in Egyptian archaeology: the foundations of the state to the end of the Middle Kingdom20Ancient Egyptian Religion and the Afterlife (online)*20The Archaeology of Technology: From Prehistory to the Present (Online)*20*A maximum of one online course can be chosen.Courses for those studying from September 2026 will be available from April 2026.Options courses in 2024/25Archaeological IllustrationBiomolecular Archaeology: the appliance of scienceBronze Age Civilisations of the Near East and GreeceConceptualising the NeolithicConflict archaeology: materialities of violenceConstantinople: The History of a Medieval Megalopolis from Constantine the Great to Suleyman the MagnificentIssues in Egyptian Archaeology: the Second Intermediate Period until the end of the Late Period (1650-332 BC)Quantitative Methods and Reasoning in ArchaeologySocial Bioarchaeology: Living Conditions, Lifestyles and the Impact of Disease in the PastThe Hellenistic CityThe Hittites: The Archaeology of an Ancient Near Eastern CivilisationThemes in Egyptian archaeology: the foundations of the state to the end of the Middle KingdomEgypt and its neighbours during the New Kingdom (1550-1069 BCE) (online) *Etruscan Italy, 1000-300 BC (online) *Homo migrans: The archaeology of migrations from prehistory to the present (online) * Options courses in 2023/24Ancient Egyptian Hieroglyphs: The Basics and BeyondArchaeological IllustrationArchaeology of 'Celtic' Europe: Communities and InteractionsArchaeology of Late Antique ReligionBiomolecular Archaeology: the appliance of scienceBronze Age Civilisations of the Near East and GreeceConflict archaeology: materialities of violenceHandling Greek PotteryHuman EvolutionIssues in Egyptian Archaeology: the Second Intermediate Period until the end of the Late Period (1650-332 BC)Marine ArchaeologyPractical ZooarchaeologyQuantitative Methods and Reasoning in ArchaeologySpace, Place and Time: the archaeology of built environmentsThe Archaeology of Children and ChildhoodThe Hittites: The Archaeology of an Ancient Near Eastern CivilisationThe Maccabaean RevoltThemes in Egyptian archaeology: the foundations of the state to the end of the Middle KingdomTheoretical ArchaeologyAncient Egyptian Hieroglyphs: An Introduction (online) *Island Worlds in Prehistory (Online) *The Celtic World (Online) * Teaching and assessmentYou will take a variety of seminar-style courses in small groups while developing your own research projects, supervised by experts in your field of study.Most classes are assessed by means of an extended piece of written work, while some courses also assess non-written skills. Further informationYou can see more details about the 2025/26 programme structure on the Degree Programme Table for the MSc in Mediterranean Archaeology. We expect the 2026/27 programme structure to be available from May 2026. This article was published on 2024-08-01