A group of five Archaeology alumnae reunited on campus this month, coming together for the first time in 40 years.
The Department of Archaeology, Classics and Egyptology is constantly pursuing innovative avenues of research. In recent years ACE has focused on developing projects within the field of experimental archaeology. Experimental archaeology is a way of practically testing ancient technologies to understand how they could have actually functioned.
This July ACE will be taking part in the annual Festival of Archaeology coordinated by the Council for British Archaeology. The aim of the national festival is to showcase the best of British Archaeology, which represents a great opportunity for the public to get engaged with archaeological projects taking place in the Department. A range of events will be taking place between the 13th and 28th July, to share some of our exciting research with a wider audience.
The Boncuklu project, led by Professor Douglas Baird and Professor Andrew Fairbairn (University of Queensland), is the exciting ongoing excavation from a 10,500-year-old village called Boncuklu near the City of Konya in the high Anatolian plateau of Central Turkey.
On Saturday 7 September Dr Alan Greaves, Senior Lecturer in Archaeology at the University of Liverpool, led a workshop for Liverpool’s Turkish community at the Victoria Gallery and Museum about his research into the life and work of the University’s first Professor of Archaeology, John Garstang.
A group of students in the University of Liverpool's Department of Archaeology, Classics and Egyptology have recently been awarded departmental prizes for their outstanding work in the 2018/19 academic year.
Professor Harold Mytum has joined with Irish historical archaeologist Dr Eve Campbell to undertake a detailed survey of Killeen graveyard in a project supported by a grant from the Royal Irish Academy and with supplementary funding by the University of Liverpool. J R Peterson, School of Histories, Languages and Cultures technician, also took part and provided his expertise in Reflectance Transform Imaging (RTI) to create images which reveal detail not easily recovered through traditional means.
Earlier this month the Society of Archaeology, Classics and Egyptology ran a GIS (Geographic Information System) workshop in partnership with the ArcGIS team from Esri, teaching students and staff the basics of the software and how it can be applied to their own research.
Megan Clark, Egyptology PhD student in our department, has been one of the only two winners of an Egypt Exploration Society Patron’s Award. This award, funded by the donations of the Patron supporters of the EES, is intended to support the research of two UK-based PhD students for a year, funding the presentation of their work on conferences, research trips, or participation in fieldwork.
Research grant funding has been awarded to Durham University with support from the University of Liverpool by the Leverhulme Trust for the three-year project ‘Did British tin sources and trade make Bronze Age Europe?’
The School of Archaeology, Classics & Egyptology at the University of Liverpool has now launched its new initiative, the Liverpool ACE Schools Project.
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The journal Antiquity's Ben Cullen Prize 2020 has been awarded to Honorary Research Fellow Dr Alan Williams, for his recent co-authored paper on research into the importance of the Bronze Age Great Orme mine in North Wales.
Dr Frederick Jones, Senior Lecturer in the Department of Archaeology, Classics and Egyptology, shares the details of his activity with upcoming art exhibitions.
The Department of Archaeology, Classics and Egyptology at the University of Liverpool is delighted to announce postgraduate funding opportunities for Autumn 2021 entry.
PhD student Lucy Timbrell is awrded two major research grants to support her PhD research at the University of Liverpool - one of $12,646 from The Leakey Foundation and another of $19,995 from The Wenner Gren Foundation.
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Two weeks of funded community excavation have been taking place at Norton Priory, directed by Professor Harold Mytum and Dr Rob Philpott of the Department of Archaeology, Classics and Egyptology at the University of Liverpool.
The University of Liverpool Department of Archaeology, Classics and Egyptology invites submissions from undergraduate, postgraduate, and early career researchers for ‘ACE & CREATIVITY’.
New scientific analysis of the composition of Roman denarii has brought fresh understanding to a financial crisis briefly mentioned by the Roman statesman and writer Marcus Tullius Cicero in his essay on moral leadership, De Officiis, and solved a longstanding historical debate.
A collaboration between Ironbridge Museum and the University of Liverpool is bringing new life to Tony and Mary Yoward’s project of documenting cast iron burial markers.
The University of Liverpool’s Garstang Museum of Archaeology, in partnership with National Museums Liverpool (NML), has been awarded £585K funding to locate and make accessible the vast archaeological collections excavated by renowned archaeologist John Garstang.
