Italian - Egyptian Workshop on Sciences and Technologies applied to Cultural Heritage I (STACH 1)

This volume contains the proceedings of the Italian - Egyptian Workshop on Sciences and Technologies applied to Cultural Heritage I (STACH 1), held in Cairo (11-12 December 2016), and organized by The Italian Archaeological Centre of the Italian Cultural Institute in Cairo (CAI - IIC) in collaboration with the Italian National Research Council (CNR). The workshop, organized in the framework of the activities of the CAI - IIC, represented the final event of the Italian-Egyptian Suez MultidisciplinaryLab (IESM Lab) of ISMA - CNR. It had also the function of training for young archaeologists and scientists of the Ministry of Antiquities of the Arab Republic of Egypt and for students from the Istituto Tecnico "Don Bosco" in Cairo. The objective of the workshop was to open a wide and integrated view on sciences and technologies applied to Cultural Heritage, in particular to Egyptian Archaeology, and included several topics ranging from Archaeology, to Climate and Meteorology, Spectroscopy, Biology, Chemistry, Satellite Remote Sensing, Photogrammetry, Geophysical survey, IT/ICT. In total 40 Scientists, 20 Italian, and 20 Egyptian, participated to the workshop, making it a unique experience and the basis to strengthen the collaborations between Italian and Egyptian research teams, continuing the road open by the Italian-Egyptian Workshop "Archaeology and Environment" (Aswan, November 2013) and the very important meeting of 100 Italian and Egyptian researchers hold in Turin (June 2015), strongly sustained by the former President of the National Research Council of Italy and the Egyptian Ministry of Scientific Research. The workshop was also the opportunity to display some features of the Italian archaeological work in Egypt following the path of the conference "Italian Research on Egyptology: from Ippolito Rosellini to current archeological projects" (Cairo, October 2014), organized by Paolo Sabbatini, Director of the Italian Cultural institute. The program included the presentation of ongoing joint research project among Italian and Egyptian Institutions, as well as novel results recently achieved. This volume contains material from a selection of the Workshop lectures, ranging from archaeology, to environment, to observation technologies as satellite remote sensing, and analysis of materials with conservation techniques. In particular, the session on archaeology illustrated research results on the important area of the Suez Canal, focused by the Ministry of Antiquities through the Suez Project In this respect the volume represents a milestone of the Italian-Egyptian collaboration in a number of important research topics, and its publication aims to strengthen the cooperation and make the basis for future fruitful discussion among scientists from the two Countries in disciplines apparently diverse, but connected.