The working groups are currently spread across three different locations. In addition to the employees’ offices, all locations have their own specialist libraries, collections, seminar rooms and, in some cases, laboratories.
Jakob-Welder-Weg 18
55128 Mainz
Hegelstr. 59
55122 Mainz
Monrepos Castle
56567 Neuwied
Classical Archaeology, Classical Philology, Paradigm Ancient World
Egyptology, Ancient Oriental Philology, Ancient Near Eastern Archaeology, Pre- & Protohistoric Archaeology
Pre- and Protohistoric Archaeology / Archaeological Research Center and Museum of Human Behavioral Evolution
Among the special features of the Institute of Classical Studies are the extensive collections of Classical Archaeology (original and cast collections) as well as those of Egyptology, Ancient Near Eastern Philology and Pre- and Protohistoric Archaeology. They include small ancient works of art such as ceramics, terracotta statuettes, bronzes, coins and a few stone works as well as a large number of original-sized plaster casts of famous works of Egyptian, Greek and Roman sculpture and copies of ancient Near Eastern written documents.
At the beginning of the 2013/14 winter semester, the Institute of Egyptology and Ancient Near Eastern Studies, the Institute of Classical Archaeology, the Department of Classical Philology and the Institute of Pre- and Early History merged and have formed the Institute of Ancient Studies (IAW) within Faculty 07: History and Cultural Studies at JGU since October 1, 2013.
Since 2020, the Mainz Ancient Studies format has been passing as part of the Gutenberg International Conference Center (GICC), which promotes international events in the field of ancient studies.
october 2013
The Institute of Classical Studies is founded as a merger of today’s working groups.
July 2014
The permanent exhibition “Understanding humanity” opens in Monrepos.
2015
The 23-year long-term project of the Academy of Sciences and Literature in Mainz “Ancient Egyptian Cursive Scripts” (directed by U. Verhoeven-van Elsbergen) starts .
November 2015
The Mainz Center for Digitality in the Humanities and Cultural Studies (mainzed) is launched.
December 2015
The Rhine-Main Archaeology Network (VARM) is an important center of archaeology in the Rhine-Main region.
March 2016
The Institute is given a new logo and the abbreviation IAW. The first annual report is published.
2019
The “Zentrum für Alte Sprache n und Schriften” (ZASS) is founded.
