Gianluca Miniaci is currently Associate Professor in Egyptology at the University of Pisa and Honorary Researcher at the Institute of Archeology in London. After earning a Ph.D. in Egyptology at the University of Pisa, he continued his career in London and Paris, with two Marie Curie Individual fellowships (EPOCHS, SHAPE). He is currently co-director of the archaeological mission at Zawyet Sultan (Minya, Egypt) and director of the excavations in TT14 and MIDAN.05 at Dra Abu el-Naga (Luxor, Egypt). Currently, he is leading two large research projects: Queen Ahhotep Treasure and its Context and Clay Figurines. He is editor-in-chief for several international journals and series, including Ancient Egypt in Context for the Cambridge University Press, Journal of Egyptian History for Brill, and Multidisciplinary Approach to Ancient Societies for Oxbow. He is director of the Laboratory of Archaeometry and Scientific Diagnosis (LAD), University of Pisa. He is the author of 7 monographs, more than 120 scientific papers, and editor of 15 research volumes. His main research interests focus on the social history of ancient Egypt, the dynamics of material culture in the Eastern Mediterranean between Egypt, the Levant, Aegean, and Nubia in the Middle Bronze Age, and the global and comparative history and archaeology.