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Notable members of Edinburgh University's School of History, Classics and Archaeology: Lord Abercromby – author of distinguished research on Bronze Age pottery; Abercromby Professors of Archaeology. Vere Gordon Childe – first holder of the Abercromby Chair [3] Stuart Piggott – second holder of the Abercromby Chair
The ancient universities of Scotland (Scottish Gaelic: Oilthighean ann an Alba) [1] are medieval and renaissance universities that continue to exist in the present day. . Together, the four universities are the oldest universities in continuous operation in the English-speaking world after the universities of Oxford and C
Edinburgh University Mountaineering Club at the cairn on Ciste Dhubh, 1964. Student sport at Edinburgh consists of clubs covering the more traditional rugby, football, rowing and judo, to the more unconventional korfball, gliding and mountaineering. In 2021, the university had over 65 sports clubs run by Edinburgh University Sports Union (EUSU ...
Edinburgh, showing Arthur's Seat, one of the earliest known sites of human habitation in the area. While the area around modern-day Edinburgh has been inhabited for thousands of years, [1] the history of Edinburgh as a definite settlement can be traced to the early Middle Ages when a hillfort was established in the area, most likely on the Castle Rock.
The University of Edinburgh was also a major supplier of surgeons for the Royal Navy, and Robert Jameson (1774–1854), Professor of Natural History at Edinburgh, ensured that a large number of these were surgeon-naturalists, who were vital in the Humboldtian and imperial enterprise of investigating nature throughout the world.
Michael Grant (21 November 1914 – 4 October 2004) was an English classicist, a numismatist, and author of numerous books on ancient history. [1] His 1956 translation of Tacitus's Annals of Imperial Rome remains a standard of the work.
Lloyd Llewellyn-Jones is a Welsh professor of ancient history, with a focus on ancient Iran, in particular the Achaemenid (550–330 BC) period. Before this, he specialized in the study of ancient Greece. Since 2016, he holds the Chair of Ancient History at Cardiff University.
The Edinburgh Readings on the Ancient World is a book series that aims to provide an introduction to key themes in the history of the ancient world. The series is published by Edinburgh University Press. Each volume takes the form of an introduction by a specialist in the field followed by translations of primary sources, explanations of key ...