Giorgos Bourogiannis holds a first degree in history and archaeology (University of Athens), a Master of Science by Research in classical archaeology (University of Edinburgh) and a PhD in classical archaeology (University of Athens). He has worked as a contract archaeologist at the Greek Archaeological Service, as a curator at the Greek and Roman Department of the British Museum, and as a postdoctoral researcher at the Museum of Mediterranean and Near Eastern Antiquities (Medelhavsmuseet) in Stockholm and at the Institute of Historical Research of the National Hellenic Research Foundation in Athens. Between 2018 and 2022 he was the principal investigator of a research project on Cypriot Connectivity in the ancient Mediterranean (CyCoMed) at the same institution. In 2022–2023 he was appointed Senior Research Associate to the ‘Being an Islander’ research project at the University of Cambridge, Fitzwilliam Musem. In addition, he has been a postdoctoral visiting fellow at the University of Cambridge – Faculty of Classics, and at the Getty Research Institute in Los Angeles, under the Getty Scholars Programme “Phoenicians, Philistines and Canaanites: The Levant and the Classical world”. He has also been awarded an Early Career postdoctoral fellowship by Harvard University – Center of Hellenic Studies. He has taught undergraduate and postgraduate courses as adjunct faculty at the Universities of Athens and the Aegean (Rhodes), at the Hellenic Open University and the Open University of Cyprus. He has excavated extensively in Greece, Italy, Egypt, Cyprus and Lebanon, whereas he has organized and published two international conferences on ancient Cyprus, a catalogue raisonné on the Cypriot pottery of the Archaeological Museum of the Faculty of Philosophy of the University of Athens, and a monograph on one of the most important sanctuaries of ancient Cyprus at Ayia Irini. He is an active member of numerous research projects on Greece and the eastern Mediterranean, a member of the American Society of Overseas Research (ASOR) and of the editorial board of the Rivista di Studi Fenici (RSF).

Research Interests

• Archaeology of the Early Iron Age Aegean
• Archaeology of cult in the Aegean and Cyprus
• Archaeology of Cyprus and Phoenicia in the late second and early first millennia BC
• Interconnections between the Aegean and the eastern Mediterranean in the Iron Age
• Scripts and languages in the Aegean and the eastern Mediterranean during the early first millennium BC
• State formation and the religious landscape of Early Iron Age Cyprus
• Trade networks and cross-cultural influence
• The history of archaeological scholarship

Selected Publications

1. Bourogiannis, G. 2025: The sanctuary of Ayia Irini Reconsidered: A Quest for Gods and Territories (Studies in Mediterranean Archaeology volume CLVIII), Nicosia.
2. Bourogiannis, G.(ed.), 2022: Beyond Cyprus: Investigating Cypriot connectivity in the Mediterranean from the Late Bronze Age to the end of the Classical period (Athens University Review of Archaeology Supplement 9), Athens (http://dx.doi.org/10.26247/aurasup.9).
3. Bourogiannis, G.andC.Mühlenbock, C. (eds), 2016: Ancient Cyprus Today: Museum Collections and New Research (Studies in Mediterranean Archaeology Pocket-book184), Uppsala.
4. Bourogiannis, G. 2021: Phoenician writing in Greece: Content, chronology, distribution and the contribution of Cyprus, in N. Chiarenza, B. D’Andrea and A. Orsingher (eds), LRBT: Dall’archeologia all’epigrafia. Studi in onore di Maria Giulia Amadasi Guzzo (Semitica et Classica Supplementa 3), Turnhout: Brepols: 99–127.
5. Bourogiannis, G., 2019: Between Scripts and Languages: Inscribed intricacies from geometric and archaic Greek contexts, in P. Boyes and P. M. Steele (eds), Understanding Relations between Scripts II: Early Alphabets, Oxbow: Oxford and Philadephia, 151–180.
6.  Bourogiannis, G. 2018: The Phoenician presence in the Aegean during the Early Iron Age: Trade, settlement and cultural interaction, Rivista di Studi Fenici 46, 43–88.
7. Papantoniou, G. & G. Bourogiannis 2018: The Cypriot extra-urban sanctuary as a central place: the case of Agia Irini, in G. Papantoniou and A.K. Vionis (eds), Central Places and Un-central Landscapes: Political Economies and Natural Resources in the Longue Durée (Land Special Issue 7, 139), 133–160, Basel

Most publications can be found at: https://ouc.academia.edu/GiorgosBourogiannis