Lorenza Ilia Manfredi

Archaeology of Castrum Inui: a sacred and maritime site in the Tyrrhenian landscape of Latium vetus (Italy)

Dr. Lorenza Ilia Manfredi is Research Director at the Institute of Cultural Heritage Science (ISPC) - National Research Council (CNR) and is responsible for the ISPC-CNR branch office in Rome. She is editor-in-chief of the editorial series "Mediterraneo Punico. Supplementi alla Rivista di Studi Fenici", edited by CNR Edizioni. She is a specialist in Phoenician-Punic archaeology and archaeometallurgy, particularly in the pre-Islamic regions of the Maghreb. She's studying ancient mines and their historical phases, territorial systems, maritime routes, and connections with processing sites suitable for the metals produced, as well as reconstructing the different historical phases in which they operated or ceased to operate. In this field she has led archaeological missions in Algeria, Portugal, Albania and Northern Macedonia. 

Dr. Manfredi is the director of the archaeological missions co-funded by the CNR and the Minister of Foreign Affairs and International Cooperation (MAECI): "Study and spatial analysis of the Atlantic route and Punic coins found in France" and "Archaeological investigations in Morocco for the reconstruction of Punic archaeometallurgical contexts in the Maghreb". In Morocco, she has conducted excavation campaigns at the Ingram Aousser fortress in the Aouam mine (Tighza, M'rirt, Morocco) and set up the 'Tighza Mining Heritage Center: Archaeology, Mineralogy and Mines', where she is the scientific director. In Algeria, in collaboration with the Italian MAECI and the Algerian Ministry of Culture, she was co-director of the international exhibition "The Phoenicians in Algeria. Trade routes between the Mediterranean and Black Africa", also training the Algerian restorers and guides involved in the exhibition.