Archaeology Bachelor of Arts (with Honours) - BA (Hons)

Archaeology at Cambridge is a dynamic course. You can study archaeology, Assyriology, biological anthropology and Egyptology.​

Explore human evolution and biology, ancient cultures and languages, early societies and how heritage affects identity and politics today. You can also choose a subject or 2 to specialise in.

This flexible course gives you the opportunity to study a broad range of subjects. Or you can choose to specialise from your first year.

You may also go on exciting digs, field trips and study tours in various parts of Europe and beyond.

There are 4 main subjects you can study:

* Archaeology – use material evidence, from molecules to monumental structures, to explore the human past and understand past societies

* Assyriology – study languages, cultures, history and archaeology of ancient Mesopotamia (Sumer, Babylonia and Assyria)

* Biological Anthropology – investigate human evolution and diversity, biology and behaviour, and the interaction between biology and culture

* Egyptology – study history, languages, society, archaeology and religion of ancient Egypt

Over the course of your degree you could:

* study the behaviour of chimpanzees

* learn about our oldest human ancestors

* translate Egyptian hieroglyphs

* learn about how climate change affected past societies

* examine imagery in a Babylonian poem