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. Education and career. Rossi was born in 1968 in Naples. She studied architecture at the University of Naples Federico II beginning in 1989, earning a laurea in 1994, and then came to the University of Cambridge for graduate study in the Faculty of Oriental Studies, where she earned a master's degree in 1998 and a Ph.D. in 2000 . She continued as a Junior Research Fellow of Churchill College, Cambridge until 2003, when she became Head of International Exchanges at the Collegio di Milano. From 2001 to 2006 she co-directed the North Kharga Oasis Survey project with Salima Ikram. In 2015 she moved to the Polytechnic University of Milan, where she is an associate professor in the Department of Architecture, Built Environment, and Construction Engineering, and the director of the Italian archaeological mission to Umm al-Dabadib. Books. Rossi's books include: