Archaeological Expedition of Sapienza in the Arabian Peninsula and the Gulf

Title

Archaeological Expedition of Sapienza in the Arabian Peninsula and the Gulf

Alternative Title

MASPAG

Description

eng The Sapienza University of Rome Archaeological Mission in Arabian Peninsula and Gulf Area (Missione Archeologica della Sapienza nella Penisola Arabica e nel Golfo – MASPAG) has been founded in 2020 in the Department of Science of Antiquities and in the long-standing research and pedagogic traditions of the Italian schools of the Near East Archaeology, History and Art History. Thanks to an experience of many years of excavations, surveys and conservations research crossing Eurasia from north-western Syria to south-eastern Arabia, MASPAG’s members plans, follows and supports different interdisciplinary projects in the Arabian Peninsula and Persian Gulf collaborating with many national and international institutions and laboratories, researchers and scholars for exploring, safeguarding and promoting the tangible and intangible heritages of ancient nomad and sedentary cultures, with specific attention to biological and anthropological approaches. MASPAG is now involved in the promotion of an Atlas of the Ancient Near East financed by Sapienza as a Great Athenaeum Project in 2016 and in field research in Oman as Great Athenaeum Excavation (2019, 2020, 2021).

Date

2016 – 2021

Status

Concluded

Subject

eng SH6_6 Digital, computational, virtual and geospatial archaeologies

eng SH6_3 Archaeology of early literate societies and early civilizations

Funded By

Sapienza Università di Roma

Homepage

https://maspag.org

Project Member(s)

Marco Ramazzotti

Value Annotations

Description

eng Director

Francesco Genchi

Value Annotations

Description

eng Co-Director

Alessio Agostini

Alfredo Coppa

Fabrizio Rufo

Nunzia Larosa

Alessandro Di Ludovico

Siham Younsi

Guido Antinori

Giampiero Tursi

Elena Maini

Francesco Caputo

Project Contributor(s)

Sapienza Università di Roma