Patrizia Piacentini

Patrizia Piacentini is an Italian Egyptologist, archaeologist, and professor at the University of Milan.
Since 2018, she has been co-directing with Khaled al-Anani, former Minister of Tourism and Antiquities, the Egyptian-Italian Mission at West Aswan in Aswan, Egypt. While excavating burials near the Mausoleum of Aga Khan, they have found ancient Egyptian tombs in the hillside dating to the Greco-Roman era.
She has been a member of the Accademia dei Lincei since 2022.

Biography

She graduated from the University of Bologna in 1986 with a master's degree in classical studies. She received her doctorate in Egyptology in 1997 at the École pratique des hautes études in Paris. Her advisor was Pascal Vernus.