Professor Tuna Şare Ağtürk

Tuna Şare Ağtürk is British Academy Global Professor at Oxford and Research Professor of Classical Archaeology at Çanakkale Onsekiz Mart University in Türkiye. She led the Nicomedia Project, which brought to light an extraordinary series of Roman imperial reliefs preserving their original vivid colours, offering remarkable new insights into the art and political imagery of the Roman Empire. Her acclaimed book on these discoveries received the Archaeological Institute of America’s James R. Wiseman Book Award in 2023. Her research focuses on western Anatolia from the Archaic period through the Roman era.