BA in Early Cultures in Providence United States | Brown University

The Early Cultures Program fosters meaningful collaboration, rigorous inquiry, and dynamic interdisciplinary research through its diverse range of sponsored initiatives. Temporally, the Program considers "ancient" to encompass periods predating the medieval era or broadly defined as early civilizations. Geographically, its scope includes early Chinese and Indian societies, Western Asia (covering Mesopotamia, Persia, Anatolia, and the Levant), ancient Egypt, Mediterranean regions (particularly Greece and Rome), along with early Islamic, Byzantine, and Pre-Columbian Mesoamerican cultures.
With over forty participating faculty members, the program draws expertise from departments including Anthropology, Classics, Comparative Literature, Egyptology and Assyriology, History, Art and Architectural History, Philosophy, and Religious Studies, alongside the Judaic Studies Program and the Joukowsky Institute for Archaeology. More than sixty graduate students across these disciplines contribute to our thriving academic community, which benefits significantly from Brown's exceptional library resources and artifact collections.