Alexandros Tsakos

Alexandros Tsakos studied history and archaeology at the University of Ioannina, Greece. His Master thesis was written on ancient polytheisms and submitted to the Université Libre, Belgium, in 1998. He studied Coptic at the University of Bergen, Norway, in 2008. From 2000 to 2002 he worked for the Antiquities Service in Attiki, Greece. Since 2003, he has worked for the Merowe Dam Archaeological Salvage Project, at Jebel Barkal, and at Akkad. Alexandros organized the Greek Cultural Center “Ergamenis” in Khartoum. He has led the renovation of the Museum at Jebel Barkal, and he was the contractor of UNESCO for the rehabilitation of the Permanent Exhibition of Medieval Antiquities in the Sudan National Museum. In 2007 and 2008, Alexandros worked extensively on the medieval collection stored in the Sudan National Museum. He has published several articles on Medieval inscriptions from Nubia – the latest concerns the Christian inscriptions from Sai to be published in Cahier de Recherches de l’Institut de Papyrologie et d’Egyptologie de Lille. Alexandros is currently a Ph.D. researcher at Humboldt University, Berlin.