Alessandro Roccati

Prof. Alessandro Roccati (born in Turin, 1941) studied Egyptology in Rome, Oxford, Bonn and Paris. Then he worked until 1986 in the Egyptian Museum of Turin, while successively lecturing in the universities of Milan, Genua, Enna and Turin. Thereafter he became full professor of Egyptology in the University of Rome “La Sapienza”, and in 2005 he moved to the University of Turin, where he retired 2011. He was also visiting professor in Geneva (1988), Paris (1998) and Cracow (2014). From 1968 he took part in archaeological expeditions in Egypt (Antinoe, Heracleopolis, Kom el-Ghoraf, Thebes and Philae), and in 1992 he became director of the Italian archaeological mission in Egypt and Sudan of Rome University “La Sapienza” till his retirement and discovered a turquoise quarry in the Egyptian Western Desert. He found, restored and published several documents epigraphical and on papyrus, whereas his main interests lie in language, writing, literature and history. He organised a few international exhibitions and conferences in Venice, Milan, Rome and Turin. He is at present Emeritus Professor of Egyptology and national member of the Academy of Sciences in Turin.
His scholarly publications reckon to around 300.