July 30, 2018

July 30, 2018

Our brand new article, Corinna Rossi and Fausta Fiorillo, ‘A Metrological Study of the Late Roman Fort of Umm al-Dabadib, Kharga Oasis (Egypt)’, Nexus Network Journal, July 2018, Volume 20, issue 2, pp. 373–91, is available (open access) here.
April 2018

April 2018

Waiting for our permissions to work in Kharga, we experimented our innovative 3D survey techniques for dark and narrow spaces in Saqqara! We wish to thank Dr Christian Greco (Museo Egizio, Torino) and Dr Lara Weiss (Rijksmuseum van Oudheden, Leiden), co-directors of...
March 1, 2018

March 1, 2018

Welcome to a new team member! Francesca Lori joined us and reinforced the female component of the research group!
October 24, 2017

October 24, 2017

Dr Fausta Fiorillo, researcher of the LIFE project, presented the paper F. Fiorillo, C. Rossi, ‘Metric analysis and interpretation of the unit of measurement in the Late Roman fort of Umm al-Dabadib (Egypt)’ at the IMEKO International Conference on...
October 22, 2017

October 22, 2017

HE General Mohamed Salman al-Zamaloot, Governor of the Wadi al-Gedid, welcomed in the Kharga Oasis Dr Corinna Rossi, Director of the Italian Archaeological Mission to Umm al-Dabadib, and presented her with an award for her work in the Oasis. The meeting with HE the...
August 3, 2017

August 3, 2017

 We watched Umm al-Dabadib from the air and from the ground! Airbus acquired for us new Pléiades images of Umm al-Dabadib and, on the same day, our surveillance team paid a visit to the site to check its conditions.