The Department of Archaelogy, Conservation and History (IAKH) is comprised of three disiplines which in different ways study the past. The department has internationally oriented archaeologists, the only conservation program in Norway and the biggest group of historians in Scandinavia. The department has close to 100 employees, including non-permanent research fellows. The study programs span archaeology from the Stone Age to the Middle Ages, object and paintings conservation, and history from Antiquity to the present age.
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The Department of Archaeology, Conservation and History consists of three disciplines, each of which examines the past in its own particular way. The department has an internally oriented environment in archaeology, offers the country’s only education in conservation, and has the largest historian community in the Nordic region.
