CONTRIBUTOR:

Karel Nováček

AFFILIATION:

TITLE:

Instructor

DEPARTMENT:

History

INSTITUTION:

Palacký University

BIOGRAPHY:

Karel Nováček is an associate professor of medieval archaeology at the Department of History of Palacký University Olomouc. He studied archaeology at Charles University in Prague (Master's degree in 1992) and history of architecture, art and conservation at the Czech Technical University in Prague (PhD in 2006). His research interests include the archaeology of the built environment, landscape archaeology and the study of medieval pottery, both in Central Europe and the Middle East. Since 2006, he has directed or participated in a number of projects in the Kurdistan Autonomous Region and in northern Iraq. He authored and co-authored more than 150 studies and monographs, among others: Kladruby Monastery 1115–1421: Settlement - Architecture - Artefacts (Prague: Scriptorium, 2010), Medieval Urban Landscape in northeastern Mesopotamia (Oxford: Archaeopress, 2016), Mosul after Islamic State: The Quest for Lost Architectural Heritage (London: Palgrave Macmillan, 2021) and Medieval Cities of Assyria (Olomouc: Faculty of Arts UP, 2022). He is a founding member of Rashid International, a global network of archaeologists and heritage experts dedicated to the preservation of Iraqi cultural heritage.