Ricerc@Sapienza

Epigraphic discoveries bring every year new contributions to the study of ancient history: new texts, new fragments, new interpretations come to confirm our knowledge, to find out new details or new episodes previously unknown, or to oblige us to review our positions. That’s also why the epigraphic heritage must be carefully preserved and protected from different kind of dangers: passing time, natural disasters, human madness. Preserving inscriptions doesn’t mean just recording them, but studying and editing the inscribed monuments with specific, professional skills. Skills that must be learned, developed, and taught so that they don’t get lost, and in order to give epigraphy too a civic and social role – in a more and more individualist world.