About us

Classics, Ancient History and Archaeology at Birmingham is one of the few university departments in the UK that draws together Archaeology and the study of Greece, Rome and Egypt. 

Andrew Bayliss speaking at Hay Festival

Academic staff here offer a wide range of expertise in the history, culture, archaeology and languages of the ancient world.

Our Teaching and Research

Teaching and research in Classics, Ancient History and Archaeology at Birmingham covers a vast range of interdisciplinary topics from life in Pharaonic Egypt to the study of Greek love poetry to slavery in Greece and Rome, to age and ageing at Rome, to mapping the ancient city, to studies of Egyptian, Greek and Roman religion, to the Christianisation of society in Late Antiquity, to Classics and film to the reception of the classical world and cultural memory – these are but a few of the subjects we focus on.