Archaeological Sciences

In consistency with the educational purposes of the whole teaching course, aim of the teaching unit is to give students a basic knowledge and comprehension skills in the field of HISTORY OF THE ANCIENT NEAR EAST, with the help of advanced textbooks. Moreover, it will make the student able to apply the acquired knowledge in an expert and reflective way, making autonomous judgments, communicating ideas, problems and reflections in a clear and correct way, and developing the knowledge required to go further in the studies. The course aims at providing the methodological and conceptual bases of the History of the Ancient Near East and dealing with its general development, from the formative periods to the Achaemenid Persian conquest, in order to offer a clear chronological and geographical frame related to the main documentary sources.