Name Perla Fuscaldo | ||
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Major works Revista de Estudios de Egiptologia Institution University of Buenos Aires | ||
Elba Perla Fuscaldo (born 1941) is an Argentinian Egyptologist, specialist of the ceramics of the Ancient Egypt.
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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 (IHAO-UBA), director of the Program of Studies of Egiptology (PREDE-CONICET), head of the department of Egiptology (IMHICIHU-CONICET, today Unit of Investigations on the Ancient Near East) and honorary researcher at the Museum of Natural Sciences of La Plata.
She was director of the Revista del Instituto de Historia Antigua Oriental (RIHAO, Journal of the Institute of Ancient East History ) and the monographic series Annexes to the Magazine of Studies of Egiptology (Revista de Estudios de Egiptología – REE). She is honorary researcher at the Centre of Studies of History of the Ancient East (Argentinian Catholic University).
She was director of the Argentinian Archaeologic Mission in Tell the-Ghaba, Sinai Peninsula, on the Way of Horus. She participated to the Austrian archaeologic mission in Tell the-Dab'to, ancient Avaris, the capital of the Hyksos period, under the supervision of Manfred Bietak.