Scuola di Specializzazione in Beni Archeologici

Lorenzo Nigro is Professor of Near Eastern and Phoenician Punic Archaeology in the Faculty of Letters, Department of Oriental Studies at Sapienza University of Rome. He is an archaeologist with 25 years of field experience in the Near East and Mediterranean. He has been the Director of the Sapienza University Expedition to Motya since 2002, while from 2004 he has directed numerous projects for the university in the Middle East — notably at Tell es-Sultan, Tell Abu Zarad, and Bethlehem in Palestine, and Khirbet el-Batrawy and Rujum el-Jamous in Jordan. His studies address pre-classical societies in the Levant and Mediterranean, with interests ranging from architecture to metallurgy, and pottery to art, with a major focus on contextual archaeology, safeguarding heritage, and the historical and cultural synchronisation and conceptualization of ancient civilisations in the region. He is among the highest ranked scholars in Levantine and Mediterranean archaeology in Scopus and academia.edu