Classical archeology sees itself as a historically and art historically oriented, interdisciplinary cultural science. It deals with the material legacy of all areas of life in Greek and Roman antiquity, from the 2nd millennium BC to late Christian antiquity. Numerous peripheral and neighboring cultures are also included, insofar as they had a cultural relationship with ancient Greece or Rome. The subject of the subject is the roots of European or oriental art and culture, which are constantly being invoked and reinterpreted at different times in Western Europe but also in the Islamic Orient, and the critical transmission of their cultural memory.

Classical archeology sees itself as a historically and art historically oriented, interdisciplinary cultural science. It deals with the material legacy of all areas of life in Greek and Roman antiquity, from the 2nd millennium BC to late Christian antiquity. Numerous peripheral and neighboring cultures are also included, insofar as they had a cultural relationship with ancient Greece or Rome. The subject of the subject is the roots of European or oriental art and culture, which have been repeatedly invoked and reinterpreted at different times in Western Europe but also in the Islamic Orient, and the critical transmission of their cultural memory.