Alessia Amenta

Alessia Amenta is an egyptologist and archeologist and curator at the Department of Egyptian Antiquities of Vatican Museums.[1]

In 2006, Amenta had directed the study and restoration of Ny-Maat-Re, a mummy which was donated to Pope Leo XIII by Khedive in 1894. Her direction was a collaboration between the paleoanthropologists Barbara Lippi and Francesco Mallegni of the Department of Biology, University of Pisa and entomologist Massimo Masetti from the Department of Bioimaging and Radiological Sciences of the Roman Catholic University of the Sacred Heart. The mummy was first unearthed in Faiyum, Egypt, and is dated from between 270 and 210 BC. The mummy was restored by 2008 with the help from Cinzia Oliva, a Textile Restorer with the collaboration of the Textile Conservation Laboratory of the Vatican Museums, and was studied for cause of death, nutrition, age and possible pathologies thanks also to the collaboration of EURAC Institute for Mummies in Bolzano.[2]

As a founder of the Vatican Mummy Project in 2007, Amenta had led the team of researchers to study climate control in the museum and preservation of the mummies, and discovered two fakes dating possibly to the 19th century.[3]

Works
  • L'Acqua Nell'antico Egitto: Vita, Rigenerazione, Incantesimo, Medicamento (L'Erma Di Bretschneider, 2005)
  • Il faraone. Uomo, sacerdote, dio (Salerno, 2006)
  • The Treasures of Tutankhamun and the Egyptian Museum of Cairo (White Star Editions, 2008)

References
  1. Eugenio Murrali (12 April 2018). "Alla scoperta dell'Antico Egitto: guida vaticana per i ragazzi". Vatican News. Retrieved 16 May 2019.
  2. Francesca Romana Morelli (November 2008). "Ni-Maat-Ra veste in tulle di nylon". No. 281. Il Giornale dell'Arte. Cite magazine requires |magazine= (help)
  3. Vogt, Andrea (21 January 2015). "Archaeologists and experts say two mummies in the Vatican Museum are fakes". The Daily Telegraph. Retrieved 16 May 2019.


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