Kate Minniti holds a PhD in Classical Archaeology from the Department of Ancient Mediterranean and Near Eastern Studies at the University of British Columbia in Vancouver, BC. She has a Master’s Degree in Egyptian Archaeology from UCL and one in History of Art and Archaeology from the Institute of Fine Arts at NYU. She has been working as a field archaeologist for more than a decade, and she is a senior member of the NYU-UniMi archaeological expedition in Selinunte, Italy, which is currently exploring the main urban sanctuary of the ancient city. Her main research interests are Iron Age connectivity and local responses to globalization in the Mediterranean, and in particular the study of Egyptian and Egyptian-inspired objects in Sicily during the Archaic Period.

She has also been a gamer for more than two decades, and since 2013 has been exploring how video games can represent and mis-represent both archaeology as a field and antiquity itself. From 2020 she has been participating in panels and conferences on archaeogaming and reception of antiquity in video games and has been focusing (and publishing!) on the topic of Egyptian mummies and ‘monsters’.