Gianluca Miniaci

Gianluca Miniaci is currently Associate Professor of Egyptology at the University of Pisa, where he teaches Ancient Egyptian archaeology, language, and history, and is an honorary researcher at the Institute of Archaeology of London. After obtaining his PhD in Egyptology from the University of Pisa, he continued his career in London and Paris, with two individual Marie Curie fellowships (EPOCHS, SHAPE). Since 2025, he has been director of the archaeological mission at Dra Abu el-Naga (Luxor, Egypt, tombs TT14 and MIDAN.05) and since 2015, co-director of the excavations at Zawyet Sultan (Minya, Egypt). He currently directs two major research projects: Queen Ahhotep Treasure and Clay Figurines. For Cambridge University Press, he directs the international series Ancient Egypt in Context and for Oxbow, he coordinates the Multidisciplinary Approach to Ancient Societies series, which focuses on comparative research. Since 2019, he has been editor of the Journal of Egyptian History (Brill). At the University of Pisa, he is the director of the Edda Bresciani Egyptological Collections and the Laboratory of Archaeometry and Scientific Diagnosis (LAD). Miniaci is the author of seven monographs, the editor of 21 research volumes, and has authored over 120 scientific articles. His primary research interests focus on the social history of ancient Egypt, the dynamics of material culture in the Eastern Mediterranean between Egypt, the Levant, the Aegean, and Nubia in the Middle Bronze Age (2000–1550 BC), the history of Egyptology (19th–20th centuries AD), and comparative approaches to global history.

Publications: https://arpi.unipi.it/cris/rp/rp10564