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Brief excursus of the history of the Italian Archaeological Missions in Sudan

The Meroitic Royal District of ancient Napata is located on the flat desert north-east of Jebel Barkal, the celebrated ‘Pure Mountain’ in the Fourth Cataract region. Since the 1970s, the excavations of the Italian Mission in Sudan have unearthed a complex system of palaces, kiosks, and other buildings integrated into a larger ceremonial area dating to the Meroitic period. The focus of the palatial area is Building B1500, the so-called ‘Palace of Natakamani’, a large edifice whose construction dates from the 1st century BC to the 1st century AD.

This paper aims to analyze the international legality of the armed attack by the US to Afghanistan and Sudan in 1998.

A quasi cinquanta anni dalla sua fondazione, la Missione Archeologica Italiana in Sudan – Jebel Barkal raccoglie, in un evento espositivo che si muove tra Roma (sede universitaria della prima direzione della Missione) e Venezia (sede universitaria dell'attuale direzione), reperti che lasciano il Sudan per la prima volta e che provengono dallo scavo dell'antica città di Napata.

This paper collects design experiments elaborated in research and teaching activities developed on case studies in Sudan, Italy and Puerto Rico. They propose comparable design solutions for different conditions with respect to scale, geography and climate. At least, they try to define design methodologies useful in other design contexts with similar economic conditions. This paper represent a preliminary reflection which deserves further and more extended analysis.