From CNR to Cerveteri and Tarquinia Park. Who is the new director Vincenzo Bellelli

An internationally renowned archaeologist and expert on the area is the new director of the Cerveteri and Tarquinia Archaeological Park, one of the new autonomous museums to which new directors were assigned today by the Ministry of Culture: Vincenzo Bellelli was awarded the post and will lead the park for the next few years.

Born in Potenza in 1968, he graduated in literature with a classical focus in 1991 from the University “Federico II” of Naples, and at the same university he obtained a Postgraduate Diploma in Archaeology, after which, in 1997, he became a PhD in Archaeology, with a specialization in Etruscology, at the University “La Sapienza” of Rome. He began working immediately after his doctorate, carrying out research activities for the Institute for Etruscan-Italic Archaeology in Rome (later to become the Institute for Studies on Italic Civilizations and the Ancient Mediterranean) of the CNR, a position he has never abandoned since: in fact, he joined the CNR in 1997, and in 2001 he became, at the same structure, a permanent researcher.

In the meantime, Bellelli has taught at several universities: he has been an adjunct professor of Etruscology and Italic Antiquities at the School of Specialization in Archaeology of the University “Federico II” of Naples, at the University of Palermo and at the University of Naples “L’Orientale.” For Bellelli, also an experience as editor in chief of the scientific journal Mediterranea. Annual Notebooks of the Institute for Ancient Mediterranean Studies, starting in 2015. He is also a corresponding member of the National Institute of Etruscan and Italic Studies in Florence.

Bellelli is very knowledgeable about the area, being, in addition to being one of the best working Etruscologists, also in charge of the CNR archaeological excavations in the urban area of Cerveteri. In the city there is much satisfaction with the appointment: “We have worked for almost ten years to obtain the establishment of the Archaeological Park, an achievement that was not at all taken for granted and indeed many told us was impossible,” said Cerveteri Mayor Alessio Pascucci. “Today, with the appointment of Bellelli as the first director and with the choice of a person of such great depth and quality as really opens a new chapter in the history of our cities. The choice of Vincenzo Bellelli is [...] in the groove of professionalism, merit and investment in the future.”

From CNR to Cerveteri and Tarquinia Park. Who is the new director Vincenzo Bellelli

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