Ancient History
The Department of Ancient History coordinates research and initiatives in the sphere of historical sciences of antiquity.
It is the home of one of the main centralized specialist libraries of Ancient History in northern Italy, as well as a computer lab for the study of ancient documentation.
In the department are numerous active research programmes which cover a vast chronological span of time, from the most archaic age and from the most ancient eastern civilisations to late antiquity and the survival of the ancient within the modern.
The research, carried out in national and international capacity, touch on various themes analysed through the principal sectors of ancient documentation, with attention both the local region and to the entire Mediterranean basin.
The department is the administrative seat for the Research Doctorate in Ancient History.