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 Bethlehem
the place of the Ascension on the Mount of Olives
Herodium, a fortress-palace and funeral site of Herod the Great
Machaerus, another Herodian fortress-palace across the Dead Sea in modern-day Jordan, the site of the decapitation of St John the Baptist
Georgian Bir El Qutt inscriptions
a Byzantine basilica and monastery on Mt. Nebo in Jordan
the church of the Holy Sepulchre
the ancient city of Magdala
