On Tuesday 9 May 2023, the first Day of Italian Archaeology abroad was held at the Campidoglio in Rome. The event was organized by the Italian Ministry of Foreign Affairs and International Cooperation to present the Farnesina’s commitment to support archaeological expeditions around the world (currently there are 246 Italian archaeological missions, operating in 66 […]

Within the series of seminars organized by the Department of History, Archaeology, Geography, Fine and Performing Arts of the University of Florence (SAGAS), Professor Lippolis (University of Turin, President of the CRAST) and Professor De Martino (University of Turin, Scientific Director of the CRAST) will give two lectures about the recent archaeological and epigraphic investigations […]

The Centro Ricerche Archeologiche e Scavi di Torino per il Medio Oriente e l’Asia does share the concern expressed by many Institutions for intentional targeting of Iranian cultural heritage sites and condemns it in unequivocal terms. The 1954 Hague Convention for the Protection of Cultural Property in the Event of Armed Conflict and ratifications prohibit […]

On the 14th of January 2020, the didactic room for children has been inaugurated at the Iraq Museum of Baghdad. The project has been supported by the European Union and represents one of the goals of the EDUU Project (Education and Cultural Heritage Enhancement for Social Cohesion in Iraq), coordinated by the Alma Mater Studiorum […]

On the 15th of January 2020 the kick-off meeting a new Erasmus+ project calle “Banuu – Designing new pathways for employability and entrepreneurship of Iraqi students in Archaeology and Cultural Heritage” took place at the University of Baghdad. This new project is coordinated by the University of Bologna and implemented by a partnership composed by […]

Online presentation, November 20th , 2020, 2.30 pm. On Friday 20 November 2020, the post-graduate school in archaeology Scuola di Specializzazione in Beni Archeologici named after Professor Giorgio Gullini, which will  start at the Department of Historical Studies of the University of Turin in the academic year 2020-2021, is presented online. During the meeting, is […]

The Centro Scavi Torino participates in the conference for the presentation of the ongoing archaeological activities and excavations promoted by the University of Turin. During the meeting, together with the presentation of the archaeological activities in Italy directed by the UNITO professors, the main results of the excavations in Iraq at the sites of Tulul […]

In collaboration with Politecnico di Torino, Università di Torino and Università Cà Foscari di Venezia, the Centro Scavi Torino coordinates a workshop on the relevance of geomatics contribution in the documentation, protection and analysis of ancient archaeological landscapes in Iraq. During the meeting, some examples of implementation of digital tools in archaeological projects currently underway […]

7th July 2022, 6:00 pm Museo Egizio Via Accademia delle Scienze 6, Torino. On Thursday 7th July 2022, the Christian Greco (Director of the Museo Egizio) and Robert Rollinger (Professor at the University of Innsbruck) will present the volume Handbook Hittite Empire. Power Structures, edited by Professor Stefano de Martino (University of Turin, CRAST). The […]

17th June 2022, Museo Ninfeo, P.zza Vittorio Emanuele II, 78 Roma. The Centro Ricerche Archeologiche e Scavi di Torino participates in the workshop organized by the Central Institute for Archaeology (ICA) in collaboration with the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and International Cooperation, the Special Superintendent of Rome and the Archaeological Park of Ostia Antica. The […]

Friday 17th June 2022, 3:30 pm Palazzo Baleani, Sala Spinelli, Corso Vittorio Emanuele II, 244, Roma. The presentation of the book ORIZZONTI D’ORIENTE.Tra Mediterraneo e Asia Centrale. Studi in ricordo di Sebastiano Tusa,  published in the Eothen series (Collana di studi sulle civiltà dell’Oriente antico no. 25), and edited by Stefano de Martino, Massimiliano Marazzi […]

Aigai, 27th May – 2nd June 2022 Professors C. Lippolis and V. Messina participate in the Scientific International Conference entitled  “Beyond Macedonia: the multifaceted Hellenistic Oikoumene reconsidered”, focused on the main studies of landscape, society and architecture and on the artistic and cultural analysis of the Hellenistic world. Professors present two speeches based on the […]

March 21, 2022, at 2:00 pm The Department of Historical Studies of the University of Turin and the Centro Ricerche Archeologiche e Scavi di Torino organize the conference “Interdisciplinary approach to the Assyrian settlement in Kültepe lower town (19th-18th centuries BCE)”, held by Professor Cecile Michel (CNRS, ArScAn, Histoire et Archéologie de l’Orient cunéiforme Maison […]

University of Kufa (Najaf, Iraq); 26th-27th February 2022. The University of Kufa and its partners (University of Bologna, Koç University and Iraqi Ministry of Higher Education and Scientific Research) will host the Third Conference for Research and Protection on the Archaeological Heritage of Iraq (ICRPAHI, 26-27 February 2022) focused on the main topics related to […]

Los Angeles, 2022 February 28 – March 02 On February 28, 2022 Professors C. Lippolis and V. Messina will participate in the conference “Contextualizing Iranian History: The Arsacids”, organized by T. Daryaee, M. Canepa, and R. Rollinger. The event will take place between February 28 and March 2, 2022 at the Irvine’s Jordan Center for […]

November 25th -27th, 2020 Professor Carlo Lippolis participates, on November 26th 2020, in the workshop entitled “Cultural heritage’s safety and security in zone of war or instability” organized by the University of Rome La Sapienza. His speech illustrates the requalification activities promoted by the Centro Ricerche Archeologiche e Scavi di Torino in the Iraq Museum […]

November 24th , 2020, 6.00 pm On Tuesday 24 November  2020, the Museo Egizio of Turin presents the online conference entitled “Cause, conseguenze e memoria della pandemia che colpì l’Egitto e il regno ittita nel XIV secolo a.C.”.  The lecturers, Professor Stefano de Martino (Department of Historical Studies at the University of Turin, Director of […]

4th February 2020, 14-19 Bibliothek Altorientalistik, Julius Maximilians Universität, Würzburg. On the 4th of February 2020 Professor C. Lippolis participates with a speech in the International Symposium entitled “Archäologische Forschungen in Anatolien und benachbarten Regionen. Archäologische Entdeckungen der jüngsten Zeit in Anatolien, Nordirak und Turkmenistan”, organized by the Julius Maximilians Universität of Würzburg and dedicated […]