Master's in Mediterranean Archeology

With a rich history spanning over 700 years, Sapienza University of Rome has welcomed over 120,000 students and boasts a faculty of over 3,500 professors and 3,000 professional staff. As the largest university in Europe, it is dedicated to advancing society through research, quality education, and global partnerships. The university has earned high rankings for its research, educational quality, and international reach, and is highly regarded across many fields of study.

The Master’s programme 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 analysed 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 research in Italy and abroad led by Sapienza provides students with unique opportunities for 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 spectrumof 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 students 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.