Who funds ancient history research?

We count 70 funded ancient history projects, active between 2021 and 2032, from 4 funders. The most came from EU · ERC (36 projects), EU · MSCA (27 projects) and NSF · MPS (3 projects). The median award is $1.5M, across the 66 of 70 projects that list an amount.

Funded projects

70

Funders

4

Median award

$1.5M

Open calls now

0

Top funders of ancient history research

Projects whose title or summary mentions ancient history. Median award: of the projects that list an amount, in US dollars; “—” when fewer than 3 do.

Open ancient history funding calls

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Funded ancient history projects

A sample, latest start first, at most three per program.

• Liquid Knowledge. The rise of uroscopy in medieval Byzantine and Arabic medicine
  Wellcome · £1,100,000 · ends 2031
• NSF-BSF: Polytopes and Simplicial Complexes
  NSF · MPS · $180,000 · ends 2029
• Unexpected Points and Unlikely Intersections
  NSF · MPS · $245,000 · ends 2029
• NERC - CIRCE: Combining Isotopes in Radiolarians to Constrain the Evolution of the Coupled Carbon-Silica Cycle
  UKRI · NERC · £776,311 · ends 2029
• Collaboration and Pseudepigraphy. Facing the Anonymous in Imperial Greek Literature
  EU · ERC · €1,499,255 · ends 2028
• Dynamics on moduli spaces of hyperbolic surfaces
  NSF · MPS · $137,633 · ends 2028
• UKRI-Norway – Sand and Sea: Links between the Silk Road and Indian Ocean in Antiquity
  UKRI · AHRC · £84,095 · ends 2028
• Sexuality in Ancient Greek Lexica
  EU · MSCA · €242,261 · 2027–2029 · SORBONNE UNIVERSITE
• Ornithological Kosmos: Birds, Ethology, and Human–Animal Relations in Ancient Greek Culture. A Study of the Ixeutika
  EU · MSCA · €226,421 · 2027–2029 · SORBONNE UNIVERSITE
• Building Arabness in Transition: Architectural Continuity, Material Spatiality, and Identity in Arab Architecture of Gathering during the Late Antique–Early Islamic Turn, 550–750 CE
  EU · MSCA · €214,345 · 2027–2029 · UNIVERSITAT WIEN

How we count

Funded projects come from public award records (NIH RePORTER, NSF, EU CORDIS, UKRI Gateway to Research, Wellcome, the Gates Foundation, DOE, NASA and USDA NIFA) whose title or summary matches “antiquity or ancient greek or ancient rome or roman greek”. NIH lists each budget year separately; one project counts once. Amounts are as the funder lists them; medians use only projects that list one, in US dollars. Open calls and forecasts are from our listings of October 28, 2026. A project can mention a topic without being mainly about it, so treat the counts as a guide to who funds the area.