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I am quickly going to do a small piece on what the master’s degree in archaeology would look like in England. This is for the aspirants who are looking to do their post-graduation from the UK and want an idea of what to look forward to. The postgraduate taught master’s degrees in England are usually one to two year long in duration when pursued full-time. Part time masters can be anywhere between two to four years long. There are also two types of master’s degrees in England - taught and research based. The research based one is more close to what we call MPhil in India and the taught degree is like the regular master’s where the course is taught by lecturers.   The structure of the course depends on the subject of the master’s. For instance, I studied MSc Environmental Archaeology, so as the title suggests all the course modules were related to/ centered around that particular topic. There are a vast range of options to choose from for all the semesters except a few compulsory/ co...

Once upon a time there was a man named Narcissus, a hunter in the Greek mythology, apparently renowned for his beauty. Narcissus was the son of the river god Cephissus and the lymph Liorope. One fine day while Narcissus was on a hunt, he came across a nymph, Echo. She saw his beauty and immediately fell for him. Echo tried to pursue him but Narcissus wouldn’t have any of it. He pushed her away and asked her not to trouble him thereafter. Echo was thus disheartened for life. When Nemesis, the goddess of revenge, came to know of the incident, she decided to teach Narcissus a lesson. She led him to a pool of water, wherein he saw his own reflection and thought it to be of someone else’s and fell in love with it. It was only later that he realised what he saw was his own reflection. He fell in despair because his love could not be reciprocated and he subsequently burnt in passion, turning into a golden and yellow coloured flower. From this story is derived our present usage of the term ‘na...