Perla Fuscaldo
Elba Perla Fuscaldo is an Argentinian Egyptologist, specialist in the ceramics of Ancient Egypt.
Life
She graduated in 1967 in history from the University of Buenos Aires and obtained her PhD in 1978 under the supervision of Argentinian egyptologist Abraham Rosenvasser.She was professor in the University of Buenos Aires, director of the Institute of Oriental Ancient History, director of the Program of Studies in Egyptology, head of the department of Egyptology and honorary researcher at the Museum of Natural Sciences of La Plata.
She was director of the Revista del Instituto de Historia Antigua Oriental and the monograph series Annexes to the Magazine of Studies in Egiptology. She is honorary researcher at the Center of Studies of Ancient Near Eastern History.
She was director of the Argentinian Archaeologic Mission in Tell the-Ghaba, Sinai Peninsula, on the Way of Horus. She participated in the Austrian archaeological mission in Tell the-Dab'to, ancient Avaris, the capital of the Hyksos period, under the supervision of Manfred Bietak.
Publications
Tell el-Dab`to X: The Palace District of Avaris. ''The Pottery of the Hyksos Period and the New Kingdom. Part I: Locus 66.. Austrian Academy of Sciences Press, Vienna, 2000.- *