University of Liverpool Department of Archaeology, Classics and Egyptology
The University of Liverpool Department of Archaeology, Classics and Egyptology (also known as ACE) has 40 members of staff and over 300 undergraduate and postgraduate students. History In 1904 John Garstang established the Institute of Archaeology, the first centre for the academic study of the methods and practice of Archaeology alongside Egyptology and Classical Archaeology in the UK. Robert Carr Bosanquet taught at the University of Liverpool from 1906 to 1920 as the first holder of the Chair of Classical Archaeology, John Percival Postgate served as Professor of Latin at the University from 1909 to 1920, and Percy Newberry was the first Brunner Professor of Egyptology from 1906 to 1919. At present, members of the Department of Archaeology, Classics and Egyptology engage in interdisciplinary research in the fields of Old World prehistory (particularly of Southwest Asia, Mediterranean Europe and Africa), human evolution and palaeoanthropology, bioarchaeology, environmental archaeology, archaeomaterials, Egyptology, the archaeology, languages, history and cultures of the Ancient Near East and the Mediterranean, later British prehistory, heritage management, medieval & post-medieval archaeology, and the history, literature, language, culture and post-antique receptions of Ancient Greece and Ancient Rome. Since 2010 the Department of Archaeology, Classics and Egyptology has been part of