Master in Mediterranean Archeology Sapienza University of Rome

The Master in Mediterranean Archaeology typically admits students having a three-year (or four-year) Bachelor of Arts or Archaeology degree or equivalent degree (i.e. Laurea Triennale) with a background in Archaeology, Cultural Heritage, Ancient History and/or Arts.

The Master’s program in Mediterranean Archaeology offers a diachronic, comprehensive overview of the deep history of the Mediterranean through a thematic approach. Historic trajectories from Prehistory and Protohistory to Classical and Medieval worlds will be analyzed embracing a perspective that opens up towards Contemporaneity. The course highly benefits from the location in the city of Rome, at the core of the Mediterranean area.

The wide range of archaeological researches in Italy and abroad led by Sapienza provides students with unique opportunity of fieldworks, lab activities and stages on a Mediterranean scale. Agreements with the main national and international bodies of research, valorization and cultural heritage protection expand the spectrum of training.

The Master’s course in Mediterranean Archaeology offers an innovative approach to archaeological studies, that goes beyond the traditional separation of courses and curricula by periods. The focus will be the processes, cross-disciplinary themes, such as social and economic developments, cultural transformations, mobility and migrations, trade exchanges and networks, on a diachronic perspective.

The Master provides student with an advanced knowledge of state-of-the-art, theoretical background, methodologies and techniques of archaeological studies and archaeological sciences. Students will also develop skills on the protection and communication of cultural heritage on a cross-Mediterranean dimension.