Gianluca Miniaci
Gianluca Miniaci is an Italian Egyptologist. He studied Egyptology at the University at Pisa and is Deputy-director of the University of Pisa excavation at Thebes, at the cemetery of Dra Abu el-Naga.
He studied from 1999 to 2004 Classical Archaeology and wrote his dissertation on the The royal necropolis of the 17th dynasty at Dra Abu el-Naga (Thebes west). This work received an honor. In 2008 he finished his PhD in Egyptian Archaeology at the University of Pisa, titled "The funerary culture at the end of the Second Intermediate Period: the emergence of the rishi coffin style". Gianluca Miniaci is the author of several books and articles, amongst them: "Rishi Coffins and the funerary culture of Second Intermediate Period Egypt", "Seven Seasons at Dra Abu el-Naga. The tomb of Huy (TT 14): preliminary results" and "Talking along the Nile. Ippolito Rosellini, travellers and scholars of the 19th century in Egypt. Proceedings of the International Conference held on the occasion of the presentation of Progetto Rosellini. Pisa, June 14-16, 2012", with Marilina Betrò. His PhD was published and is a study of the Egyptian Rishi coffins of the Second Intermediate Period.[1]
Works
- (with Marilina Betrò), Talking along the Nile. Ippolito Rosellini, travellers and scholars of the 19th century in Egypt. Proceedings of the International Conference held on the occasion of the presentation of Progetto Rosellini. Pisa, June 14-16, 2012", Pisa University Press, Pisa 2013, ISBN 886-74-1128-4
- Rishi Coffins and the Funerary Culture of Second Intermediate Period Egypt (GHP Egyptology 17), London 2010, ISBN 978-1906137243
- La guerra e i suoi riflessi nelle società antiche. Atti del convegno del dottorato di orientalistica università di Pisa 26-27 giugno 2007, ETS, Pisa 2009, ISBN 978-8846720337
- (with Paolo Del Vesco, Marilina Betrò), Seven seasons at Dra Abu El-Naga. The tomb of Huy (tt14): preliminary results, Pisa 2009, ISBN 978-8884926036