Byzantine Archaeology, History and History of Art of Greece is an intensive postgraduate course offering advanced, field based training in the archaeology, history of art, and material culture of Byzantine Greece. The course takes place from 24 June to 5 July 2026 and is taught in English.
Based at the British School at Athens, the programme combines lectures and seminars with extensive on-site teaching in museums, archaeological sites, and historic landscapes. Participants engage directly with monuments, objects, and archival sources, gaining first-hand experience of current approaches to Byzantine archaeology and art history. Field trips include guided study of Byzantine Athens, with visits to the Byzantine and Christian Museum, as well as excursions to key monuments and regions such as the monasteries of Dafni, Hosios Loukas, and Skripou at Orchomenos, Ancient Corinth and its museum collections, Acrocorinth, Sparta, Mystras, and northern centres including Thessaloniki and the Archaeological Museum of Thebes. Students will also have privileged access to the British School at Athens Archive and the Byzantine Research Fund collection, an exceptional resource of architectural drawings, photographs, and notebooks documenting Byzantine monuments across the Mediterranean from the late nineteenth to the mid twentieth century.
The course is limited to a maximum of 12 postgraduate students. We welcome applications from world-wide postgraduate students in archaeology, liberal arts, classics and history. Selection criteria will include (but not be limited to) a demonstrated interest and need for the course and the candidates’ present and future research projects.
The course fee is £1200, and will include BSA one-month membership, housing where self-catering facilities are available, breakfast, meals as specified in the program, all accommodation and travel within Greece required for the course, museum and site fees, one-year museum pass, one-month 24h access to the BSA library. Not included are: international airfare to and from Greece and meals not included in the program. Incidental expenses are the participant’s responsibility.
A number of BSA-administered bursaries might be available for students, which will be assigned on the basis of merit and need.
Applications will open in December 2025.
Please see below for an indicative course programme.
