Sardinia goes to Tunisia! Harvard-hosted panel on the Global Middle Ages

Posted on January 22, 2023January 22, 2023 by Hervin Fernandez Aceves

The Tunisia Office of the Center for Middle Eastern Studies at Harvard University hosted our panel seminar entitled ‘Tunisia in the Global Middle Ages’, on 27 June 2022. All the presentations were delivered by our project’s researchers: Dr Alex Metcalfe, Dr Hervin Fernandez-Aceves and Dr Marco Muresu. Each one of them had the opportunity to Read more about Sardinia goes to Tunisia! Harvard-hosted panel on the Global Middle Ages[…]

New publication by Thomas Birch and international colleagues on interpreting lead isotopes

Posted on July 20, 2020July 20, 2020 by Hervin Fernandez Aceves

One of our Co-Investigators, Tom Birch, is part of a team that has recently been published about new findings on lead isotopes interpretation. You can read the abstract and consult the article here! The conventional approach to ore provenance studies of ancient silver coins and artifacts has been to first analyze and then try to Read more about New publication by Thomas Birch and international colleagues on interpreting lead isotopes[…]

Evidence for Sardinian metal in the Eastern Mediterranean in the Byzantine period

Posted on July 23, 2019October 5, 2019 by Hervin Fernandez Aceves

Thomas Birch, one of our Co-Investigators, is part of a team that has published results on the coinage from Jerash/Gerasa, challenging the ‘5th century CE monetary crisis’, identifying potential metal sources and furthering our understanding of monetary organisation in the Eastern Mediterranean. In his paper, new compositional and metallographic data are presented for the fourth Read more about Evidence for Sardinian metal in the Eastern Mediterranean in the Byzantine period[…]