Mattia Mancini
Teaching Assistant
Mattia Mancini obtained a PhD in History with a research project in Egyptology with title “The Egyptian collection at Palazzo Schifanoia in Ferrara”. He has been a research fellow within “TEMA – la Toscana Egittologica tra Musei e Archivi” project directed by Marilina Betrò. He is member of the Ahhotep Project, tutor for the egyptological traineeships at University of Pisa and managing editor of the journal Egitto e Vicino Oriente since 2022.
He worked in the field of preventive and emercency archaeology in several sites in Central Italy. He also participated in various excavation campaigns in Egypt: 2010/2011, the MAIL mission in the funerary complex of Harwa and Akhimenru (Luxor, Egypt); 2011, 2018 and 2022, the Italian Archaeological Mission in Dra Abu el-Naga (Luxor, Egypt; University of Pisa); 2017, the Italian-German mission in Zawyet Sultan (UniPI-Universität zu Köln); 2019, the Egyptian-German mission in Heliopolis (Universität Leipzig-MoA, 2019).
Moreover, he deals with web cultural dissemination, especially via his Egyptology blog “Djed Medu”(https://djedmedu.wordpress.com), and collaborating with National Geographic Italia. Thanks to the experience gained in the field, he manages the website and the social networks of Egyptology in Pisa.
Publications: https://arpi.unipi.it/cris/rp/rp43136