Virgilio Canio Corbo (1918 - December 6, 1991) was an Italian Franciscan Friar and professor of archaeology at the Studium Biblicum Franciscanum in Jerusalem.
He is remembered for the excavations of many religious sites:
the Shepherds' field near Bethlehemthe place of the Ascension on the Mount of OlivesHerodium, a fortress-palace and funeral site of Herod the GreatMachaerus, another Herodian fortress-palace across the Dead Sea in modern-day Jordan, the site of the decapitation of St John the BaptistGeorgian Bir El Qutt inscriptionsa Byzantine basilica and monastery on Mt. Nebo in Jordanthe church of the Holy Sepulchrethe ancient city of Magdala
