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Alessandro de Maigret Personal information
Born: 14th August 1943 Place of birth: Perugia (Italy)
Vocational training
• arts degree (curriculum in archaeology) at the University of Rome (1971) • specialization in oriental archaeology at the University of Rome (1971-2) • specialization in environmental archaeology at the Institute of Archaeology of the University of London (1978-9)
Professional experience
• researcher at the Institute of Ancient Near Eastern Studies of the University of Rome (1970-1980) • associate professor of Oriental archaeology at the Oriental University Institute of Naples (1980-1990) • full professor of Archaeology and history of art of the ancient Near East at the Oriental University Institute of Naples (since 1990)
Publications
• more than one hundred scientific articles and essays on Syrian, Yemeni and Ethiopian archaeology • five books on specific Near Eastern archaeology themes • one popular book on South Arabian archaeology (in Italian and English)
Additional professional activities
• member of the Italian Archaeological Mission in Syria of the University of Rome (1970-6) • director of the Italian Archaeological Mission in Yemen 1980)
(since
• cultural counsellor at the Italian Embassy in Riad (Saudi Arabia) (1993-7) • field director of the French excavations at Yeha (Tigray, Etiopia)(1998) • Director of the Joint Italian-Saudi Excavations Project at Dumat al-Jandal (Saudi Arabia), (since 2009) Memberships
• president of “Arabia Antiqua, International association for the enhancement and preservation of the archaeological heritage of the Arabian Peninsula” (since 1991) • member of the Istituto per l’Oriente; Deutsche OrientGesellschaft; Unione Antropologica Italiana; International Union for Quaternary Research; Italian Institute for Africa and the Orient; Société des Archéologues, Philologues et Historiens de l’Arabie; Society for Arabian Studies.