Archives: Siti di scavo
Khuzestan
The Iranian-Italian Joint Expedition in Khuzestan conducted research in the area of the modern city of Izeh, on the road through the Baktiari mountain from Ahwaz to Isfahan and Shiraz. Fieldwork started at Hung-e Azhdar, a village located at the entrance of a Valley about 17 km north of Izeh, and continued at Kal-e Chendar, […]
Ortaköy
The city of Sapinuwa The ruins of the Hittite city of Sapinuwa are located near the village of Ortaköy (40°15’10”N 35°14’15”E) in Turkey, 55 km southeast of the modern city of Çorum and 60 km east of ancient Hattusa, the capital of the Hittite Kingdom of Hatti. Archaeological excavations at this site began in 1990 under […]
Kharkhorin
The site The city of Kharkhorin, in the province of Övörkhangai, is located in an area of great historical and archaeological significance. The ruins of ancient Karakorum, the capital of the Mongolian Empire founded by Genghis Khan in 1220 and occupied until the end of the fourteenth century, are situated on the northern edge of […]
IPAMED
The project The IPAMED (Inventaire du Patrimoine de la Méditerranée) project, presented in the context of the “Euromed Heritage I” program and financed by the European Community with the goal of exploiting the cultural heritage of the Mediterranean area, aimed at the creation of a computerized cartography of Tunisia, which in executing the design, focused […]
Carthage
The project for the cultural and environmental park of the Maalga and the area of the Punic Ports, which got under way in October 2003 and terminated in December 2005, consisted of a feasibility study for the management of the Maalga area and the Punic Ports in Carthage, on the basis of archaeological, topographic, geologic, […]
Palmyra
In 1995 the CRAST started a project for the realization of an archaeological cartography of Syria. The work, which almost lasted two years (March 1995 – December 1996) was carried out in cooperation with the Direction Générale des Antiquités et des Musées of Damascus and the GORS – General Organization for Remote Sensing. The research […]
Beka’a Valley
The research of the CRAST In Lebanon, the CRAST intervened by applying the methodologies prepared for the territory’s systematic study in the Baalbek area, making an interesting contribution to the reconstruction of the settlement’s history of this very important part of the Beka’a (or Biqa’) Valley, from the Neolithic age to the early Umayyad period. […]
Beirut
On the occasion of the city centre’s reconstruction after the civil war, many remains of Beirut’s urbanistic and architectural history, from the Neolithic age to the time of the Ottoman Empire, were brought to light. The Italian mission attempted to document the field results of these investigations as thoroughly as possible, introducing the principles and […]
Nisa
The work carried out by the mission of the CRAST in Old Nisa (Mithradatkert), in nowadays Turkmenistan, realized thanks to the contribution of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and from 2001 until 2007 also of the Compagnia di San Paolo of Turin, is part of the more general field of research on “The legacy of […]
Nimrud
Nimrud, the ancient Kalhu, was founded in the 9th century BCE as the capital and royal residence by Ashurnasirpal II, the first great sovereign of the Neo-Assyrian empire. The site was investigated by the CRAST in years 1987, 1988 and 1989 through: a topographical survey; an archaeological survey; the excavation of Fort Shalmaneser. The excavation […]
Nineveh
In 2002, on the eve of the Second Gulf War, the CRAST, together with the State Board of Antiquities and Heritage of Iraq, the Iraq Museum, the Central Restoration Institute in Rome and the Direction General for the Archaeological Heritage of Italy’s Ministry of Cultural Heritage and Activities, began a campaign for documenting and verifying […]
Tulul al-Baqarat
The Italian archaeological expedition organized by the CRAST and directed by C. Lippolis, started its work in the archaeological area of Tulul al-Baqarat in November 2013. Tulul al-Baqarat is located in the Iraqi governorate of Wasit, about 25 km southwest of the modern city of Kut. The Italian team, that continued the work until 2022, […]
Hatra
The CRAST, together with the University of Turin, conducted explorations and studies of Hatra, the capital of the Arab tribes in the area between the Tigris and Euphrates, which became the ancient tribes’ most important pre-Islamic city between the 1st century BCE and the 2nd century CE. The CRAST conducted numerous campaigns, one of the […]
Kifrin
The surveys and excavations conducted at Kifrin between 1980 and 1983 are the Italian contribution to the rescue project that preceded the construction of the al-Qadissiya dam and the creation of the basin on the Euphrates upstream of Haditha (Haditha Project – State Board of Antiquities and Heritage of Iraq). Five excavation campaigns brought to […]
Hamrin
The excavations of the CRAST began in June 1977 within the context of an international cooperation project promoted by the State Organization of Antiquities and Heritage of Iraq for the saving of the archaeological sites that the basin created by the dam on the Diyala river would have submerged, and lasted until 1981. Excavations in […]
Atrek Valley
The survey project in the upper Atrek valley is part of the programme for studying Parthian civilization – the object of research by the CRAST at least since the 1970s – aiming at better defining the demarcation between the region’s strictly Parthian cultural aspects and those linked to pre-existing local traditions. The Atrek valley, a […]
Khirbet Hatara
The construction of a dam on the Tigris upstream of Mosul has caused the formation of a long basin that reaches the Turkish and Syrian border to the north. Among the sites proposed by the State Board of Antiquities and Heritage of Iraq, the Italian Archaeological Mission chose Khirbet Hatara in order to verify the […]
Veh-Ardashir
Between 1964 and 1975, the CRAST conducted a series of excavation campaigns in the area of the ancient Sasanian city of Veh-Ardashir, founded by the first great Sasanian ruler Ardashir I (224–241 CE) in front of Seleucia, on the opposite bank of the Tigris, not far from the hypothetical site of Ctesiphon, the village near […]
Babylon
In 1974 the Iraqi State Board of Antiquities and Heritage (SBAH) entrusted the CRAST with a preliminary project of development and restoration of the site of Babylon. Main goals of the project were to slow down the decay of the structures caused by erosion and aquifer resurgence, and to ease the reading of the archaeological […]
Swat
A series of excavation and study campaigns were carried out in Pakistan between 1956 and 1959 by the Centro Ricerche Archeologiche e Scavi in Asia dell’Is.M.E.O. e di Torino: Giuseppe Tucci was the coordinator and director of the expeditions, and Giorgio Gullini was the co-director. The Italian archaeological mission started to be involved in Pakistan […]
Selinus
The research conducted in Selinus by the University of Turin and by the CRAST is part of a study project regarding the temple architecture of the Greek city. Carried out in accordance with the Archaeological Local Authorities of Palermo initially, and subsequently with the Cultural and Environmental Heritage Authorities of Trapani, the research activities were […]
Locri
The researches of the CRAST An agreement with the Archaeological Local Authorities of Reggio Calabria, entered into in the mid 1990s, led the CRAST to take an interest in the Marasà Sanctuary in Locri Epizephyrii and, in particular, in the Ionic temple that dates back to the second quarter of the 5th century BCE. According […]
Verbano Cusio Ossola
One of the areas surveyed by the CRAST using geographic information system in Italy is the Piedmont area that includes Verbano, Cusio and Ossola. For different reasons (geomorphology, historical context, etc…) the Verbano-Cusio-Ossola area is well suited to an historical reconstruction by survey which integrates all the physical and mathematical scientific elements as well as […]
Kuh-i Kwaja
The archaeological studies, conducted by the CRAST (then called Centro Scavi dell’ISMEO e di Torino) from 1960 to 1961, concerned the Kuh-i Khwaja complex in Iran’s Seistan region. The study, which combined stratigraphic excavations and the analytical study of building techniques, showed how the site, in its construction stages spanning from the Achaemenid to the […]
Banbhore
The site of Banbhore rises at the mouth of the Indus deltaic region on the northern bank of the Gharo creek, midway on the route from Karachi to Thatta, ca. 30 km from the present shoreline. It consists in a “citadel” encircled by bastions, and a vast area of extra moenia ruins – harbour structures, […]
Jerash
In 1977, the Jordanian government granted the CRAST a concession for performing excavations in Jerash, anciently known as Gerasa. The main goal of the research, considering the extraordinary state of preservation of the Imperial-era ruins of the ancient city, comparable to those of Palmyra and Baalbek, was that of acquiring new analytical elements that may […]
Seleucia
In 1964 CRAST inaugurated its field research at the site of Seleucia on the Tigris, which represented the core of the CRAST research for a long time. Between 1927 and 1937 the site had already been explored by the American archaeologists of the University of Michigan and the Museums of Toledo and Cleveland, which performed […]