November 1, 2019
Welcome to two new team members! Nicoletta De Troia joined the team as historian and officially marked the opening of Work Package nos. 2 and 3, the study of the strategy and control of Egypt’s Western Desert in the Late Roman Period. Simone Galli started his PhD on...
April 15, 2019
Not only Notre Dame burned today. The largest, and oldest tree at Umm al-Dabadib, the millenarian acacia that grew along the western side of the Northern Settlement, was reduced to ashes by a fire that must have lasted several days. Despite the brave efforts of Essam,...
April 1, 2019
Always waiting to receive our own permission and go back to Kharga, also this year we are experimenting the three-dimensional survey at Saqqara thanks to the Dutch-Italian Mission of Museo Egizio, Torino and Rijksmuseum van Oudheden, Leiden. Our PhD student Luca...
March 12, 2019
The 3D surveys carried out by the Politecnico di Milano for the Dutch-Italian Mission to Saqqara in 2019 are highlighted in the exhibition Archeologia Invisibile (Invisible Archaeology) at the Museo Egizio, Torino, that opened today. Watch full video.