Department of Ancient History

Detailed information

Department Head: Professor V.I.Kuzishchin.

The main fields of research and specialization for students of the department are as follows:

  • History of Diplomacy and the Military History of the Ancient Middle East

  • History of Literature of the Ancient Middle East

  • Religion and Culture of Ancient Egypt

  • Woman in Ancient Egypt

  • Ethnogenesis and Linguogenesis of the Western Semites in the 3rd and 2nd millennia B.C.E.

  • Hurrian Political Formations in the Ancient Middle East

  • History and Culture of Ancient China

  • Greek Polis

  • Way of Life and Mentality of the Ancient Greeks

  • History of State Institutions of Athenian Polis

  • History of Ancient Greek Coins

  • History and Culture of Greek Towns in the Northern Black Sea Region: Territories of Chersonese and the Bosporus in the Hellenistic Era, Cults in Northern Black Sea Towns, Features of the Political Organization of Bosporus Kingdom

  • Economy, Policy and Social Relations in Regions of the Hellenistic East

  • Functioning of the Roman Polis (Social and Political Structures)

  • Early Roman Religion

  • Political History of Rome in the 2nd Century B.C.E.

  • History of Early Christianity

  • Roman Agrarian Cadastres

  • History of Roman Law: Sources, History of Private and State Law, History of Agrarian Law

  • Geography of Ancient World

  • History of Ancient American Civilizations