Corinna Rossi
Corinna Rossi (born 1968) is an Italian Egyptologist known for her works on Ancient Egyptian mathematics and Ancient Egyptian architecture, on the archaeology of the Kharga Oasis, and on related topics in the history of Egypt and the Levant.
Biography
Rossi was born in 1968 in
Churchill College, Cambridge. She moved back to Italy in 2004 and became Head of International Exchanges at the Collegio di Milano.[2] In 2015 she moved to the Polytechnic University of Milan,[2]
where she is Associate Professor of Egyptology in the Department of Architecture, Built Environment, and Construction Engineering.
Projects and scientific activity
She was a member of the British Mission to
Tell al-Amarna from 2000 to 2003. Since 2019 is a member of the Dutch-Italian Mission to Saqqara of Museo Egizio, Turin and Rijksmuseum van Oudheden, Leiden (since 2019) and since 2020 also of the joint IFAO-Museo Egizio mission to Deir al-Medina
From 2001 to 2006 she co-directed the North Kharga Oasis Survey project with Salima Ikram[3] and is the Director of the Italian archaeological mission to Umm al-Dabadib (Kharga Oasis) since 2014.[1]
Books
Rossi's books include:
- Architecture and Mathematics in Ancient Egypt (Cambridge University Press, 2003).[4]
- The Pyramids and the Sphinx: Art and Archaeology (The American University in Cairo Press and White Star Publishers, 2005)
- The Treasures Of the Monastery Of Saint Catherine (The American University in Cairo Press and White Star Publishers, 2006)
- North Kharga Oasis Survey: Explorations in Egypt’s Western Desert (co-authored with Salima Ikram, Peeters, 2018)
- Innovative Models for Sustainable Development in Emerging African Countries (edited with Niccolò Aste, Stefano Della Torre, Cinzia Talamo, and Rajendra Singh Adhikari, Springer, 2020)
- Egypt, Greece, and Rome. A History of Space and Places (Routledge, 2022). [5]
References
- ^ a b c Scheda docente, Polytechnic University of Milan, retrieved 2022-01-12; see also linked Curriculum Vitae
- ^ a b c "Corinna Rossi", ORCid, retrieved 2022-01-12
- ^ Rose, Mark (March–April 2004), "Caring for the Dead", Archaeology, 57 (2)
- ^ Reviews of Architecture and Mathematics in Ancient Egypt:
- Ataç, Mehmet-Ali (2004), "Review", Bryn Mawr Classical Review (2004.09.21)
- Chrisomalis, Stephen (September 2009), "Beyond teleology: ancient mathematics and social history", Antiquity, 83 (321): 849–851,
- Duvernoy, Sylvie (2008), Nexus Network Journal, 10 (1): 203–206, doi:10.1007/978-3-7643-8728-0_14)
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- Larkin, Diana Wolfe (September 2006), Journal of the Society of Architectural Historians, 65 (3): 428–429, )
- Musacchio, T. (June 2007), Near Eastern Archaeology, 70 (2): 118–119, )
- JSTOR 10.1086/491492)
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- Symonds, Sarah (December 2009), "Review" (PDF), Aestimatio: Critical Reviews in the History of Science, 2: 11–15,
- ^ Reviews of Egypt, Greece, and Rome. A History of Space and Places:
- Angelucci, Mariachiara (January 2023), "Review", BMCR: Bryn Mawr Classical Review
External links
- Home page at Department ABC, Politecnico di Milano
- Living on a Fringe Environment, research project directed by Rossi
- Corinna Rossi publications indexed by Google Scholar