PhD / MPhil Egyptology

Egyptological research at Liverpool covers an almost complete range of the topics studied within the discipline of Egyptology including the material culture, language, literature and documentary texts, and the social history and archaeology of ancient Egypt.

The Department of Archaeology, Classics and Egyptology is internationally reputed for its world-class interdisciplinary research in diverse fields ranging from the origins of humanity and Old World prehistory to the cultures, languages and texts of the late antiquity and the archaeology of the historical periods.

Egyptological research at Liverpool covers an almost complete range of the topics studied within the discipline of Egyptology. Our publications on the material culture, language, literature and documentary texts, and the social history and archaeology of ancient Egypt are at the forefront of research in these fields, bringing to the department a regular stream of UK and overseas researchers. Liverpool Egyptology graduates hold academic and museum posts worldwide.

With 42 academic & research staff and over 60 postgraduate researchers ACE forms one of the largest hubs for the academic study of the human past in the UK.