Explore Archaeology at USC!
Want to hold something 2,000 years old in your own hand?

The Archaeology Research Center is open to all students at the University of Southern California regardless of their major.

The USC ARC Lab is a place to discover archaeology and to participate in archaeological discovery. Students are welcomed into field and lab projects centered in California, the Middle East, southern and central America and elsewhere.  

USC's Archaeology Collection is a window to the everyday life and momentous events in the Old World cultures of the Near East including those in Israel, Egypt, Babylon, the Greek and Roman Empires, Turkey and Mesopotamia. Classes use the pottery vessels, coins, jewelry, seals, tablets, glass, sculpture and other finds from archaeological excavations.