Vito Messina

vito.messina@centroscavitorino.it

Vito Messina is full professor of Iranian Archaeology at the University of Turin (Department of Historical Studies), and co-director of the excavations at Seleucia on the Tigris (Iraq). His research focuses on cultural interrelations in the ancient world, royal ideology in Seleucid and Parthian Asia, Mesopotamia and Iran in the 1st millennium BCE, administration procedures in the Hellenistic world, new technologies in archaeology, preservation and conservation of endangered regions’ Cultural Heritage.