Preliminary note on the 2019 archaeological campaign of the Italian-Turkmen archaeological expedition to Old Nisa (Turkmenistan)

In the framework of the Agreement signed between the Ministry of Culture of Turkmenistan and the Centro Ricerche Archeologiche e Scavi di Torino (crast), the work on the feld of the joint Italian-Turkmen Archaeological Expedition to Nisa was resumed in September 2019. Four areas were investigated: two soundings were opened near the southern corner of the site (Area K), excavation works were resumed in pit US667 (south-western corner of the site), a small trench was excavated between the Red Building and the South-Western Complex (Area L) and a trench previously dug by the JuTAKE (season 1956) in the northern corner of the site was expanded with a new sounding.