Professor Emeritus Giorgio Buccellati Receives 2021 Balzan Prize
Professor Emeritus Giorgio Buccellati, along with Marilyn Kelly-Buccellati, received the 2021 Balzan Prize for Art and Archaeology of the Ancient Near East. They received this award “For their achievements in the study of Hurrian culture and for highlighting its importance as the foundation of a great urban civilization, among the most flourishing in the ancient Near East in the third millennium BCE; for promoting a digital approach to the study of archaeology; for enhancing theoretical reflection on the nature of this discipline.”