The Department of Ancient Near Eastern Archaeology offers two Master's programmes:

• the Master's programme in the History and Cultures of the Ancient Near East with a specialisation in Near Eastern Archaeology (in German)
• the Master's programme in Archaeology of the Ancient World (MA AAW), offered jointly with the Institute of Classical Archaeology and the Institute of Prehistoric Archaeology (in English).

The Master's programme in the History and Cultures of the Ancient Near East with a focus on Ancient Near Eastern Archaeology provides students with in-depth specialist knowledge of Ancient Near Eastern Archaeology,scientific working methods and sufficient analytical skills for independent scientific research and teaching. In addition to subject-specific training, the programme also aims to provide interdisciplinary training in order to promote the ability to carry out interdisciplinary academic work. In accordance with its international focus, the programme teaches professionally oriented foreign language practice, in particular English.

Archaeology of the Ancient World (MA AAW) is a two-year full-time Master's programme taught in English. The MA combines three disciplines - Prehistoric Archaeology, Near Eastern Archaeology and Classical Archaeology - to examine the past of North Africa, Southwest Asia and Europe from a multidisciplinary perspective. The programme introduces students to the past of a part of the world that has undergone intense intercultural and inter-societal transformations over the last ten thousand years. In order to explore these processes, MA AAW students are provided with theoretical skills in dealing with texts and opinions as well as artefacts and data