Media - Avasa

The Urkesh project has attracted the media attention, not only because of its intrinsic merit, but also because of the context in which it is taking place: that of the war in Syria. Other related projects, such as the Georgia exhibition, have also attracted a lot of interest. Below are the main references.

"2021 BALZAN Prize"

Articles

Online interviews and TV reports

1. Specific about the "2021 BALZAN Prize":

2022 – June 20, 2022: VCO24 (Mauro Zuccari); PDF (English)
2022 – June 29, 2022: Avvenire (Gianni Santamaria); PDF (English)
2022 – July 3, 2022: OssolaNews.it; PDF (English)
2022 – July 5, 2022: SDN; PDF (English)
2022 – July 13, 2022: News24Ossola; PDF (English)
2022 – July 16, 2022: Prealpina (Mauro Zuccari); PDF (English)
2022 – October 1, 2022: Ticino7; PDF (Italian)

2014 – Domenico Quirico in La Stampa (in Italian)
2014 – L'Ossolano (in Italian)
2015 – Maurizio Assalto in La Stampa (in Italian)
2015 – Orazio La Rocca in La Repubblica (in Italian)
2015 – Omero Ciai in La Repubblica (in Italian)
2015 – Andrew Lawler in National Geographic - USA
2015 – Andrew Lawler in National Geographic - Italy (in English)
2015 – Alessandra Baldini in ONU Italia. Giornale italiano Nazioni Unite (in Italian)
2016 – Il giornale del popolo - Lugano (in Italian)
2016 – Carlo Pasquali in L'eco risveglio (in Italian)
2016 – Pat McDonnell Twair in Washington Report (in English)
2017 – Gianfranco Ravasi in Il Sole 24 ore (in Italian)
2018 – M.C. Cammi, M.S. Mezzaris, L. Secondino in Redazione ragazzi - Quotidiano Meeting (in Italian)
2018 – Andrea Salatino in Tempi (website, in Italian)
2018 – Dr. Mahmud Hamud in Al Mawqif Al-Adabi 569, September 2018 (in Arabic. This is a monthly literature magazine issued by the the Arab writers's league in Syria; Dr Hamud's article offers an overview of the excavations at Tell Mozan)
2018 – "Syrien: Nationalmuseum neu eroffnet - mit einem Beitrag aus dem Ossola"/"Syrie: le Musée national rouvre ses portes, et il présente un petit morceau d'Ossola" in Idee Simplon und Seen (in German and French)
2018 – Robi Ronza on his blog (in Italian)
2020 – Archaeology for a young future. Press release regarding the inclusion of our project among the finalists of the special prize ILUCIDARE.
2020 – L’Associazione Avasa tra i finalisti del concorso internazionale Ilucidare, in ossolanews.it (in Italian)
2020 – Mauro Zuccari in Ossola24.it (in Italian)
2021 – Roberto Bioglio in Eco Risveglio (in Italian)
2021 – Eleni Gizas in the Newsletter of the American School of Classical Studies at Athens
2021 – Giorgio Buccellati and Marilyn Kelly-Buccellati, "Con la arqueología, la Biblia no resulta pura retórica", in Alfa&Omega, September 30-October 6, 2021, p. 22 (Culture); English translation here
2021 – Giorgio Buccellati and Marilyn Kelly-Buccellati, "Giorgio Buccellati: 'Al Daesh, como a los talibanes, hay que combatirlos con las ideas y la arqueología es útil'", in ABC, October 12, 2021, online; English translation here
2021 – Avvenire, November 14, 2021, p. II (in Italian)

2014 – Meeting di Rimini (in Italian)
2014 – RAI News 24 (from minute 2; in Italian)
2015 – TG Piemonte (in Italian)
2015 – Maurizio Menicucci, , RAI Piemonte: "La storia salvata" (in Italian)
2015 – Laura Fabbri, VCO notizie: "Dal Profondo del Tempo" (in Italian)
2016 – Monica Mondo, Soul: Giorgio Buccellati si racconta (in Italian)
2016 – Claudia Giraud, Intervista al Museo Egizio (in Italian)
2016 – Alessandro Caprio in Buongiorno Rimini (in Italian)
2018 – Mauro Zuccari in Ossola24.it (in Italian)
2019 – Mauro Zuccari in Ossola24.it (in Italian)
2020 – Laura Fabbri, VCO notizie: "Archeologia per un futuro giovane", AVASA and the "2020 ILUCIDARE Award" (in Italian)
2022 – Podcast on Radio24/"Darwin, l'evoluzione della scienza", "Urkesh la città di 4500 anni fa" (interview, in Italian, to Prof. Giorgio Buccellati and Prof. Marilyn Kelly-Buccellati; by Federico Pedrocchi)