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The team successfully completed the 2023 expedition to Umm al-Dabadib, despite the heat and the wind (and the giant spiders!).

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 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.

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.

Team members Francesca Lori, Simone Galli and Andrea Pasqui presented the results of their research on the occasion of the international conference GeoRes/Arquaeológica 2021.

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...

Welcome to a new team member! Andrea Pasqui joined the team as PhD candidate. He will be working on the virtual valorisation of archaeological remains. Further information on the activities of Andrea can be found here.

We are delighted to announce that team member Fabrizio Rechichi released the open source system CHIMERA, a BIM+GIS system for Cultural Heritage. CHIMERA is a ready-to-work web information system that allows the use of different integrated data (3D models, point...

Our new metrological study of the architecture of Umm al-Dabadib has just appeared! Our thanks go to Kim Williams and Nexus Network Journal. Corinna Rossi and Fausta Fiorillo, 'The Vaults of Umm al-Dabadib: Geometric Study', Nexus Network Journal, 2020 is available...

Simone Galli presented our research on the interpretation of archaeological data based on direct and remote retrieval of information to the Florence HeriTech conference.

Welcome to a new team member! Clementina Caputo joined the team as ceramicist. She started her project on the collection of terracotta figurines of Museo Egizio, Torino thanks to a research fellowship offered by Politecnico di...

Dr Antonello Migliozzi, Co-Director of the Italian Mission to Umm al-Dabadib, has been nominated Time Machine Ambassador for Southern Italy. LIFE is joining the Time Machine platform to disseminate the results of the project, as well as to create new connections with colleagues working on similar sites and subjects.

Corinna Rossi, Director of the Italian Mission to Umm al-Dabadib and Mohamed Ibrahim Ahmed, General Manager of the Kharga Antiquities published a joint paper on the current situation of a series of archaeological sites that have never been properly investigated, and that are in danger of being damaged or even destroyed by neglect and modern activities.

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 the relationship between digital and material culture, with a special focus on the application of new technologies on the study of ancient artefacts. Further information on the activities of Nicoletta and Simone can be found here.

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

Waiting for our permissions to work in Kharga, we experimented our innovative 3D survey techniques for dark and narrow spaces in Saqqara!

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

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)’

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 …

We watched Umm al-Dabadib from the air and from the ground! Airbus acquired …

LIFE and the Ministry of the Antiquities started the surveillance of the archaeological site of Umm al-Dabadib, in collaboration with Pan Arab Tours…

We are extremely sad to report that our friend and colleague Prof. Samir Ghabbour passed away….

The project LIFE was presented to Ferruccio Resta, Rector of the Politecnico di Milano, on the occasion of his visit to the premises of the 3D Survey Group….

The Musei delle Scienze Agrarie (MUSA) signed a 3-year partnership with the Museo Archeologico Nazionale di Napoli (MANN) and the Department of Agricultural Science of the University of Napoli Federico II…

Corinna Rossi and Ashraf Salem presented the results of the latest studies on the area of Umm al-Dabadib to the Ministry of the Antiquities and to the Egyptian Environmental Affairs Agency in Cairo…

The Project LIFE starts today! Corinna Rossi and the entire team wish to express their gratitude to the Members of the 2015 ERC CoGrant Peer Review Panel…