Paolo Gallo

The Excavations at Nelson Island, Egypt. Archaeological Rescue Excavations of the University of Torino (Italy) 1997-2016

Dr. Paolo Gallo is a Senior Researcher of Egyptology at the University of Torino, Italy, where he has taught since 1999. He has been a Visiting Professor at the Ecole Pratique des Hautes Etudes, Paris, France - Sections des Sciences religieuses (2018) et d’Archéologie et de Sciences Historiques et Philologiques (2024). A former member of the French Institute of Oriental Archaeology in Cairo from 1990 to 1992, he has published many hieroglyphic inscriptions, Demotic and Greek texts, archaeological reports and historical papers on Egyptian monuments. His scientific interests are concerned mainly with the cultural and political relationships of Egypt with Greece and Rome, with a special attention for the ancient coastal cities of Alexandria and Canopus. From 1997 to 2016, he was director of the Italian Archaeological Mission at Nelson Island, Alexandria. From 2003 to 2009 he also directed the Archaeological mission of the University of Torino in the oasis of El Bahrein (near Siwa, Egypt), where an unknown temple decorated by pharaoh Nectanebo the Ist was discovered.