One hundred years of Sardinian history to be discovered and explored with drawings, notes, institutional and private correspondence and over 8,000 photographs. This treasure is enclosed among the 897 folders and files that can be consulted in the State Archives of Cagliari . The number - from the initial 112 - has grown after an important census work. Among the documents available – for study or reading – also the rich epistolary of the archaeologist Antonio Taramelli , the notes of Filippo Vivanet at the head of the Royal Commissariat of Museums and Excavations of Antiquities or the documentation of the excavations of the young Giovanni Lilliu , engaged in the role of Inspector of the Superintendence.

After various removals and relocations, only a small part of this heritage was available for consultation. But, thanks to a ministerial funding of 800 thousand euros, intended for the wider project of restoration and enhancement of the photographic archive heritage of the Archaeological Superintendence , fine arts and landscape for the metropolitan city of Cagliari and the provinces of Oristano and South Sardinia, the The Regional Secretariat of the Ministry of Culture for Sardinia, in collaboration with the Superintendency and the State Archives of Cagliari, has entrusted the Nuorese company Taulara srl with the task (for an amount of 15,000 euros) of the census of the historical archive .

And now all the preserved documents are available for consultation. The new inventory will allow scholars to access valuable information, facts and news for all fields of study, alongside the work still in progress on the other great asset of the Superintendency of Cagliari, the photographic archive.

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