Research in Ancient Studies.
The research group Ancient history, culture and religion consists of researchers in archaeology, history and religion. Ongoing research is presented and discussed at regular seminars. The seminars also serves as an instrument for education of PhD candidates, whom presents chapters from their dissertation work. Researches of antiquity from other departments and institution also participates in the seminars.
Head of the research group: Professor Christian Meyer
Research areas
- NeRoNE: Networks in the Roman Near East.
(Eivind Seland) - Palmyrena: City, Hinterland and Caravan Trade between Orient and Occident .
(Christian Meyer, Eivind Seland, Nils Anfinset, Torbjørn Preus Schou) - Political and social conditions in the Ancient city-states.
(Ingvar Mæhle)
- Sites and Marginal Landscapes during the Bronze Age. The Prehistoric Tegea.
(Hege Agathe Bakke-Alisøy) - Gnosticism, orthodoxy and heterodoxy in ancient Christianity with particular attention to Coptic sources.
(Ingvild S. Gilhus, Einar Thomassen) - Hermetism. "The Discourse of Hermes: the Egyptian priestly figure as a teacher of Hellenized wisdom".
(Christian Bull)
- Greek temple architecture. Excavation of the sanctuary of Athena Alea at Tegea. Doric temples at Sikyon and Asea. Early developments of Doric temple architecture.
(Erik Østby) - Egyptian burial customs in the 18th dynasty.
(Pål Steiner) - Ancient Rome. City development: Moving through the Gate: traffic systems and urban nodes in Roman Italy. Mediterranean Gateway of Imperial Rome: routine movement in the southern periphery)
(Simon Malmberg)
Bloggar om globalhistorie
Postdoktor Eivind Heldaas Seland bloggar om globalhistorie, og der han skriv privat om historie på tvers av kronologiske og geografiske grenser.
Ein kan òg følgje han på @globalhistorie og Facebook.
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