Sebastiano, 67, was a passionate archaeologist of international renown and Cultural Heritage Advisor in the Sicilian region. He was also Professor of Palaeontology at the Suor Orsola Benincasa University in Naples and held political posts in the Sicilian regional administration.
“There are beings whose lives are like no other. Sebastiano Tusa is one of them. The SFAC members who were able to follow his lecture on the Battle of the Aegades, presented on November 20, 2010, certainly felt how strong his presence was. Sebastiano didn’t know French perfectly, but he read his text with such conviction that we all understood everything, carried along by the particular atmosphere of his talk”. Martine Fourmont of the French Society of Classical Archaeology Read more