Vincenzo Tusa initially studied in Mistretta, and later obtained his degree in literature in Catania in 1944, going on to become an assistant in Archeology.
During his time at the Superintendency, Tusa was responsible for promoting several excavations in the archaeological sites of Soluntum, Segesta, Selinunte,[1] Motya, Marsala.
In the 1960's Tusa was the promoter of the Sicilia Archeologica magazine, as well as professor of Punic Antiquities at the Faculty of Letters of the University of Palermo until 1991.
[2] Tusa was also a member of the Accademia dei Lincei for the Archeology category within the Moral Sciences class.
His son, Sebastiano Tusa, also an archaeologist, held the position of head of the Superintendency for the Sea of the Sicilian Region.