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Early life & Career
Born in Thessaloniki 07/15/1948 and graduated from the Department of Archaeology of the Aristotle University. With a scholarship from the Greek State (IKY ) was trained for three years in Paris, University of Paris I- Panthéon Sorbonne- professors, among others, Helen Glykatzi- Arwheiler- from where she obtained the diploma DEA (Diplôme d ' Etudes Approfondies) in History and Culture of the Byzantine world. Anastasia Tourta is Doctor of Philosophy, at Aristotle University of Thessaloniki.

In 1993 she was awarded the First Prize of the Order of Arts and Literature of the Academy of Athens for her doctoral thesis. Specializes in Late Byzantine and post-Byzantine painting and has written many articles about. She has organized and participated in many Byzantologist and museological conferences in Greece and abroad.

As an employee of the Archaeological Service worked in Epirus and Macedonia in excavations, monuments records and relics, restoration and maintenance of monuments , particularly of Thessaloniki after the earthquake of 1978. From 1984 onwards dealt primarily with the organization of archaeological exhibitions and had the edited more than 20 presented in Greece and abroad.

Strain the Museum of Byzantine Culture ( M.V.P. ) from the beginning of its operation (1994 ) undertook his address in 2001, from which he retired in late 2008.

In 2005, the Museum of Byzantine Culture was awarded the " Best Museum " of the Council of Europe, a pan-European distinction awarded first museum of our country. Apart from the completion of the permanent exhibition in M.V.P. She had the scientific responsibility and coordination organization of the permanent exhibition for Thessaloniki 's White Tower, which opened in September 2008.

Board Member the European Centre for Byzantine and Post-Byzantine Monuments (E.K.V.M.M.) from the beginning of its operation (1998) took over the management of the 2007. In this context it has organized and is responsible for cooperation projects carried out by E.K.V.M.M. along with M.V.P. with foreign institutions, especially Balkan countries to provide expertise in maintenance and management of archaeological materials, the organization reports.

She is member of many scientific organizations in Greece and abroad and has recently been selected for the second three years, the Association of European Archaeologists as a jury member of the nominations for the European Archaeological Heritage Prize.(www.yppo.gr/0/kas/1/11 anastasia tounta.doc)

He had custody, or participated in organizing dozens of Exhibitions, presented in Greece and abroad, among them :

1.The permanent exhibition about Riga Fereos Tower Belgrade Nebojša,

2. Report to Mount Athos organized in 2009 in Paris,

3.The exhibition "Heaven and Earth", launched in 2013 in the US

Honours & Awards
• In 2015 she was honored by the President of the Greek Republic, Mr. Karolos Papoulias with the Gold Cross of the Order of Merit

The director of the European Centre for Byzantine and Post-Byzantine Monuments, honorary director of the Museum of Byzantine Culture Anastasia Tourta received the Gold Cross of the Order of Merit, one of the honors conferred the highest state ruler personalities of culture , science , media and sport.

• In 2006 she received from the Queen of Denmark Margrethe II the honors Chevalier de 1er grade

• In 1993 she was awarded the First Prize of the Order of Arts and Literature of the Academy of Athens for her doctoral thesis.

• The Union of European Archaeologists chose for two consecutive mandates as a member of the jury of the candidates for the prize awarded annually to personalities and prestigious institutions in Europe (Committee for the European Archaeological Heritage Prize).

• The UNESCO has commissioned a rapporteur to record the monuments on the list of world cultural heritage.

Author career

 * Short Guide Museum of Byzantine Anastasia Tourta (2005)
 * Icons from the Thracian Coast of the Black Sea Anastasia Tourta (2012)
 * Wandering in ByzantineThessaloniki - Eftychia Kourkoutidou-Nikolaidou, Anastasia Tourta (1997)
 * Tribute to academic Panagiotis L. Vokotopoulou - Vasilis Katsaros, Anastasia Tourta
 * Heaven & Earth: Art of Byzantium from Greek Collections - Anastasia Drandaki, Demetra Papanikola-Bakirtzi, Anastasia Tourta
 * Paper Icons: From the Dory Papastratos Collection - AnastasiaTourta, Stamatios Chondrogiannis (2005)
 * The Churches of Saint Nicholas in Vitsa and Saints Mina in Monodendri : Approach to the work of painters from Linotopi - Anastasia Tourta (1991)
 * Museum of Byzantine Culture (short studies) - Kourkoutidou-Nicolaidou, Papanikola-Bakirtzi,Tourta Anastasia, Kazazi Deborah,Verlet Jean-Marie (2006)