July 29, 2023

July 29, 2023

The team successfully completed the 2023 expedition to Umm al-Dabadib, despite the heat and the wind (and the giant spiders!). The team completed the reassessment of the sequence of cemeteries and ceramic dumps along Aqueduct 5, started in 2022, and investigated an...
July 6, 2023

July 6, 2023

Corinna Rossi presented some of the results of the project at the international conference Ancient Egypt and New Technologies, at the Istituto Orientale in Napoli. The conference represented the occasion to present the methodology that was applied to remotely study...
February 28, 2023

February 28, 2023

The ERC project LIFE has come to its official end. This day represents the conclusion of the bureaucratic part, but not of the activities that have been launched thanks to the ERC grant and that are thriving. The team is actively working on the final publication on...
May 5, 2022

May 5, 2022

After 6 years of break, in May 2022 the permission arrived to resume fieldwork in the Western Desert. The Italian Mission to Umm al-Dabadib 2022 took place from May 19 until June 6. The aim of the season was to look for an answer to the questions that accumulated...
April 26-27, 2021

April 26-27, 2021

Team members Francesca Lori, Simone Galli and Andrea Pasqui presented the results of their research on the occasion of the international conference GeoRes/Arquaeológica...
November 12, 2020

November 12, 2020

The preliminary report of the 2019 field season of the joint mission to Saqqara of Museo Egizio, Torino and Rijksmuseum van Oudheden, Leiden is now available. It includes a report of the construction of the workflow to survey an ongoing excavation by Alessandro...