Bachelor in Archaeological Excavations

The Institute of Fine Arts is deeply involved in one of the most ambitious and extensive archaeological projects currents in Egypt. The Institute co-sponsors, with the University of Pennsylvania Museum and Yale University, excavations at the site of Abydos in southern Egypt.

The Institute is a thriving center of advanced research and graduate teaching in art history, archaeology, and art conservation. A site of knowledge production since its founding in 1932, the Institute has also produced many of the world’s leading art historians, museum directors, curators, and conservators. Learn more about what's happening at the Institute in the Annual.

Institute students join a community of excellence and form a community of excellence. Institute students share in the production of cutting edge research in art history, archaeology, and conservation. Whatever their professional goals, Institute students are prepared to work with historical breadth and depth, with conceptual and theoretical sophistication, and with a command of the techniques of material, formal, and stylistic analysis.