From Turin to Karakorum. Archaeology for the Public through Asia

Over the last decades, archaeologists working in Middle Eastern countries have been facing a lot of issues related to the nature of their work, and to its impact on complex and changing political, social and economic structures. The interventions carried out in Iraq in recent years by the Centro Scavi Torino (CRAST) have highlighted the social and public dimension of the work of Italian archaeologists. In Mongolia, a recent project broadens the geographical and chronological boundaries of the CRAST activities whilst remaining consistent with its main lines of research: the crosscultural exchanges in antiquity and the aim at increasing public awareness on the historical and archaeological heritage.