Archeology as an Academic Discipline, Its Sub-disciplines

Academic discipline is the branch of a humanthat scientists in this field should be aware of such
knowledge in a certain sphere of life. There arelanguages as Akkadian, Sumerian, Biblical Hebrew,
Humanitarian, Social, Natural, Formal, and appliedHittite, Elamite, and Aramaic in order to understand
academic discipline. Archeology is academic socialsome manuscripts of Mesopotamian culture. 2.
discipline which deals with the exploration of pastClassical archeology is the branch of archeology which
societies of the world. The process of the explorationstudies the history and culture of the Ancient World.
is closely connected with the discovery, recovery, andThe Ancient World includes such countries as Ancient
the analysis of the artifacts of past cultures. ThroughRome and Greece. 3. Phoeniciology is the branch of
the material смысл неArcheology which studies the history and the culture
понятен culture archeologists study theof ancient settlements which were situated at the
history of different world cultures, and the process ofterritory of such contemporary countries as Spain,
their development. The Structure of the ArcheologyCorsica, Sicily, Israel, Malta, and Cyprus. These
Archeology has its own sub-disciplines. The history ofterritories in archeological world are called Phoenicia. 4.
mankind is very long and, consequently, the object ofEgyptology is one of the main branches of
archeological investigation is too wide as well. ThereArcheology. It investigates the ancient Egyptian world,
are such sub-disciplines of archeology as Assyriology,its culture and history. It is the fact that ancient
Classical Archeology, Phoeniciology, Egyptology, andEgyptians were archeologists themselves. As well as
many others. Let us consider these sub-disciplinescontemporary Egyptologists, they tried to recover
closer: 1. Assyriology is the branch of Archeologicalsome cultural monuments. For example, the Sphinx
science which investigates the historical and culturalwas recovered by the archeologists of one of the
development of Mesopotamia. It should be pointed outancient Pharaohs.