Ricerc@Sapienza

Marco Ramazzotti is Professor of Archaeology and Art History of Ancient West Asia and Eastern Mediterranean and Archaeology of Eurasia (STAA-01/E) at Sapienza. He is founder and director of the Laboratory of Analytical Archaeology and Artificial Adaptive Systems (LAA&AAS); he is founder and director of the Atlas of the Ancient Near East (AANE); he is founder and director of Sapienza Archaeological Mission in the Arabian Peninsula and Gulf (MASPAG); he is president of the Course of Studies in Sciences of Sustainable Tourism in the Sapienza Faculty of Letters and Philosophy and he planned the new multidisciplinary didactical subdivision of the course in three integrated curricula; he organized the First International Congress of Ancient Near East Landscape Archaeology and Historical Geography (1^st CANELAHG), Sapienza University of Roma (5-8 October 2021), see M. Ramazzotti ed. 2024. He combines research on the relationships between Analytical Archaeology, Artificial Intelligence and Natural Computing and Historical-artistic, Semiotic and Cognitive Analysis. Since the 90s, he has participated in many archaeological excavations, prospections, surveys, and restoration field projects in western Asia, northeastern Africa, eastern and southeastern Arabia and organized national and international congresses, conferences, seminars, workshops and exhibits. He is author and co-author of 154 presentations to peer reviewed national and international conferences, 105 articles, 7 volume editor, and 5 monographs (last in press). He has participated as head of research units in two projects FP7: Solving Environmental Conflicts in Coastal Areas (SECOA 2008) and Ebla. The Early State and its Chora. Royal Archives, Visual and Material Culture, Remote Sensing and Artificial Neural Networks (EBLA CHORA 2009). In 2014, he won Sapienza Research Award for the project Analytical Archaeology of the Southern Mesopotamian Urbanism (AASMU). Since 2022, he is a participant in the project Supply of Resources and their Management in Hittite Anatolia (SoRMHA). Since 2022, he is Principal Investigator of the project: Marshlands, Islands and Marine Coasts. Social Complexities, Tribal Alliances and Human Mobility between Southern Mesopotamia and Eastern, South-Eastern Arabia during the 3^rd and 2^nd Millennium BCE – PRIN 2022 – SH6: BTKA9Y; since 2022, he is member of the Sapienza research unit directed by Rita Francia of the project Supply of Resources and their Management in Hittite Anatolia (SoRMHA) PI: Giulia Torri. Since 2025, he is a participant in the EU project: EduCATIA: Advanced Training in Artificial Intelligence Technologies for Kazakhstan and Uzbekistan 101237936 - GAP-101237936.