About Us

ILARIA VINCENZI

Founding president of T.I.G.R.E. – Turkestan International Group for Research and Excavation. Archaeologist. Specialized Archaeologist in Archaeology of Central Asia. Archaeologist member at Uch Kulakh tepe mission. Phd canditate at Universitat Autonoma de Barcelona.

CLAUDE RAPIN

Resercher at the CNRS (French National Centre for Scientific Research, UMR 8546 Archéologie/Archaeology Department, Department Member). Specialized Archaeologist:Archaeology of Central Asia, Battriana and Sogdiana. Since 1989 he works on fild in Uzbekistan(Samarkand-Afrasiab, Koktepe, Portes de Fer près de Derbent, Kindikli-tepe, Yangi-rabat). Since 2015 he is the Director of MAFOuz. Scientific director of the archaeological excavation.

CHIARA SILVI ANTONINI

Professor of History of Art of India and Central Asia, Sapienza-Università di Roma. She worked as Archaeologist in different asian Countries: Pakistan, Afghanistan, Nepal. Foundator of the archaeological mission at Uch Kulakh tepe, she has been the scientific director  since 1995 to 2009.

DJAMAL K. MIRZAACHMEDOV

Archaeologist from  Archaeological Institute of Samarkand(Academy of Sciences of Uzbekistan).Co-director of the archaeological mission.

FRANCA FILIPPONI

Archaeologist. Specialized Archaeologist in Archaeology of Central Asia. Phd in History and Archaeology of Central Asia. She worked as Archaeologist in the mission at Uch Kulakh tepe from 1998 to 2009.