{"id":151910,"date":"2025-05-12T14:18:16","date_gmt":"2025-05-12T14:18:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.unipi.it\/ateneo\/organizzazione\/persone\/gianluca-miniaci-24391-en\/"},"modified":"2026-04-01T04:47:12","modified_gmt":"2026-04-01T02:47:12","slug":"gianluca-miniaci-24391-en","status":"publish","type":"unipi_persone","link":"https:\/\/www.unipi.it\/en\/about-us\/organisation\/people\/gianluca-miniaci-24391-en\/","title":{"rendered":"Gianluca Miniaci"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Professore Associato &#8211; Dipartimento di Civilta&#8217; e Forme del Sapere | Tel.: 050 2215220 &#8211; Email: gianluca.miniaci@unipi.it<\/p>\n","protected":false},"template":"","meta":{"unipi-persone-chiave":"24391","unipi-persone-nome":"Gianluca","unipi-persone-cognome":"Miniaci","unipi-persone-email":"gianluca.miniaci@unipi.it","unipi-persone-cv":"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.","unipi-persone-link-esterno-cv":"","unipi-persone-modalita-ricevimento":"Il ricevimento in presenza pu\u00f2 anche essere trasferito in modalit\u00e0 a distanza sulla piattaforma Teams.  Il docente riceve anche in altri giorni su appuntamento specifico.\n\nSi prega di contattare SEMPRE il docente prima del ricevimento, tramite email al seguente indirizzo: gianluca.miniaci@unipi.it. Il seguente orario non \u00e8 valido per i periodi in cui l'attivit\u00e0 didattica \u00e8 sospesa. Si prega di contattare il docente prima di venire a ricevimento.","unipi-persone-luogo-ricevimento":"Studio Docente, via dei Mille 19 (III piano)","unipi-persone-ore-ricevimento":"Lu ore 15.30-18.30","unipi-persone-telefono":"050 2215220","unipi-persone-sitoweb":"https:\/\/egittologia.cfs.unipi.it\/en\/team\/gianluca-miniaci-2\/","unipi-persone-cariche":"<ul><li>Direttore - Collezioni Egittologiche<\/li><\/ul>","unipi-persone-link-orario-lezioni":"https:\/\/unipi.prod.up.cineca.it\/calendarioPubblico\/matricola=011728","unipi-persone-link-registro-lezioni":"https:\/\/unimap.unipi.it\/registri\/registri.php?ri=011728&tmplt=principale.tpl","unipi-persone-settore-scientifico":"Egittologia e Civilta` Copta STAA-01\/B","unipi-persone-ruolo":"Professore Associato","unipi-persone-arpi":"https:\/\/arpi.unipi.it\/cris\/rp\/rp10564","unipi-persone-pubblicazioni":"<ul class=\"pubblicazioni-list\"><li><a href=\"https:\/\/arpi.unipi.it\/handle\/11568\/1361687\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Applicazioni mobile-based per il rilievo 3D di reperti archeologici: Un\u2019analisi comparativa tra Reality Composer e Polycam 3D Scanner, LiDAR, 360<\/a> <span class=\"pub-details\">(Voccia, R.; Sala, F.; Gattiglia, G.; Belcari, R.; Long, G.; Miniaci, G.; &amp;, ; Naso, M. - 2026 - 1.1 Articolo in rivista)<\/span><\/li><li><a href=\"https:\/\/arpi.unipi.it\/handle\/11568\/1330614\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Clashing Religions in Ancient Egypt Exploring Different Layers of Religious Beliefs<\/a> <span class=\"pub-details\">(Miniaci, Gianluca; Marilina, Betr\u00f2 - 2025 - 7.1 Curatela)<\/span><\/li><li><a href=\"https:\/\/arpi.unipi.it\/handle\/11568\/1330613\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">When Religion becomes Countable: The Case of Ancient Egypt<\/a> <span class=\"pub-details\">(Miniaci, Gianluca - 2025 - 2.1 Contributo in volume (Capitolo o Saggio))<\/span><\/li><li><a href=\"https:\/\/arpi.unipi.it\/handle\/11568\/1303987\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Conceiving Elements of Divinity: The Use of the Semantic Web for the Definition of Material Religiosity in the Levant During the Second Millennium BCE<\/a> <span class=\"pub-details\">(Laneri, Nicola; Nigro, Lorenzo; Miniaci, Gianluca; Nicolosi-Asmundo, Marianna; Francesco Santamaria, Daniele; Pappalardo, Chiara - 2025 - 1.1 Articolo in rivista)<\/span><\/li><li><a href=\"https:\/\/arpi.unipi.it\/handle\/11568\/1303027\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Il tesoro perduto della regina Ahhotep. Una donna alla riconquista dell\u2019Egitto antico<\/a> <span class=\"pub-details\">(Miniaci, Gianluca - 2025 - 3.1 Monografia o trattato scientifico)<\/span><\/li><li><a href=\"https:\/\/arpi.unipi.it\/handle\/11568\/1317327\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">The unpublished manuscript of von Bissing for the Catalogue g\u00e9n\u00e9ral des antiquit\u00e9s \u00e9gyptiennes du Mus\u00e9e du Caire *CG 19500\u201319549 for the treasure of Queen Ahhotep<\/a> <span class=\"pub-details\">(Miniaci, Gianluca - 2024 - 1.1 Articolo in rivista)<\/span><\/li><li><a href=\"https:\/\/arpi.unipi.it\/handle\/11568\/1279927\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Preface. Forsaken Relics<\/a> <span class=\"pub-details\">(Buono, Alessandro; Miniaci, Gianluca; Anguissola, Anna - 2024 - 2.2 Prefazione\/Postfazione)<\/span><\/li><li><a href=\"https:\/\/arpi.unipi.it\/handle\/11568\/1278029\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">After death: rituality used to legitimise the appropriation of abandoned goods in ancient Egypt<\/a> <span class=\"pub-details\">(Miniaci, Gianluca - 2024 - 2.1 Contributo in volume (Capitolo o Saggio))<\/span><\/li><li><a href=\"https:\/\/arpi.unipi.it\/handle\/11568\/1278027\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Forsaken relics: practices and rituals of appropriating abandoned artifacts from antiquity to modern times.<\/a> <span class=\"pub-details\">(Buono, Alessandro; Miniaci, Gianluca; Anguissola, Anna - 2024 - 7.1 Curatela)<\/span><\/li><li><a href=\"https:\/\/arpi.unipi.it\/handle\/11568\/1278007\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">The adventurous life of Giuseppe Ferlini<\/a> <span class=\"pub-details\">(Miniaci, Gianluca - 2024 - 2.1 Contributo in volume (Capitolo o Saggio))<\/span><\/li><li><a href=\"https:\/\/arpi.unipi.it\/handle\/11568\/1277988\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Two Contemporary Queens Named Ahhotep at the Dawn of the Eighteenth Dynasty: Evidence from the Sources and the Bracelet Cairo JE 4685<\/a> <span class=\"pub-details\">(Miniaci, Gianluca; Saler, Camilla - 2024 - 2.1 Contributo in volume (Capitolo o Saggio))<\/span><\/li><li><a href=\"https:\/\/arpi.unipi.it\/handle\/11568\/1277967\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">The Sacred and the Secular in the Theban Necropolis. Studies Presented to Marilina Betr\u00f2<\/a> <span class=\"pub-details\">(Miniaci, G.; Greco, C.; Del Vesco, P.; Mancini, Mattia; Alu, Cristina - 2024 - 7.1 Curatela)<\/span><\/li><li><a href=\"https:\/\/arpi.unipi.it\/handle\/11568\/1277950\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">A Matter of Religions: Gods and People in Ancient Egypt. Studies Presented to Marilina Betr\u00f2<\/a> <span class=\"pub-details\">(Miniaci, G.; Greco, C.; Del Vesco, P.; Mancini, Mattia; Alu, Cristina - 2024 - 7.1 Curatela)<\/span><\/li><li><a href=\"https:\/\/arpi.unipi.it\/handle\/11568\/1277948\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Digging for Ancient Egypt and Egyptology in the Archives. 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