Ancient History

About this course

Ancient history is the study of the human past from the emergence of the earliest literate civilisations through to the end of the Roman Empire in the West, and it encompasses an extraordinarily rich range of societies, cultures and periods. From the city-states of ancient Greece and the empires of Rome and Persia to the civilisations of Egypt, Mesopotamia and the Near East, the discipline asks how these societies were organised, how they understood themselves and the world, how they rose and fell, and what legacy they left to later ages. It draws on written sources, material evidence, numismatics, epigraphy and a range of other forms of evidence, demanding both linguistic and analytical skill. At the University of Edinburgh, this four-year programme develops your analytical, practical and research skills across the full breadth of the ancient world. You will engage with ancient texts i

Where its graduates go

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