Gianluca Miniaci is an ItalianEgyptologist, currently Associate Professor at the University of Pisa. He studied from 1999 to 2004 Classical Archaeology and wrote his dissertation in Egyptology on "The royal necropolis of the 17th dynasty at Dra Abu el-Naga ". 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". He continued his academic formation in London, Institute of Archaeology, UCL and in Paris, École Pratique des Hautes Études, EPHE, thanks to two Individual Marie Curie Fellowships. He worked in the most renowned museums, as the British Museum and the Musée du Louvre. Miniaci is directing an archaeological mission in the site of Zawyet el-Maiyitin and he is deputy-director of the University of Pisa excavation at Thebes, in the cemetery of Dra Abu el-Naga. He is editor-in-chief of the international series "Middle Kingdom Studies", Golden House Publications, of the "Journal of Egyptian History", Brill-Leiden, and of the series "Ancient Egypt in Context", from the Cambridge University Press. Miniaci is the author of several books and more than 80 articles, including: Rishi Coffins and the funerary culture of Second Intermediate Period Egypt and Lettere ai morti nell'Egitto antico e altre storie di fantasmi.
Works
: The Arts of Making in Ancient Egypt, Voices, images, and objects of material producers 2000–1550 BC, Sidestone. Leiden,
G. Miniaci, W. Grajetzki: The World of Middle Kingdom Egypt , Vol. II, MKS 2, London: GHP, 2016,
G. Miniaci, W. Grajetzki: The World of Middle Kingdom Egypt , Vol. I, MKS 1, London: GHP, 2015,
Lettere ai morti nell'Egitto antico e altre storie di fantasmi, Brescia: Paideia Editrice, 2014,
, 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: Pisa University Press, 2013,
Rishi Coffins and the Funerary Culture of Second Intermediate Period Egypt, London: GHP, 2011,
, Seven Seasons at Dra Abu El-Naga. The tomb of Huy : preliminary results, Pisa: Pisa University Press, 2009,
La guerra e i suoi riflessi nelle società antiche. Atti del convegno del dottorato di orientalistica università di Pisa 26-27 giugno 2007, Pisa: ETS, 2009,
