Rodolfo Fattovich

Rodolfo Fattovich (1945-2018) was an Italian archaeologist specialising in African archaeology. He was born in Trieste and studied Egyptology and prehistoric archaeology at the University of Trieste. He continued his study of Predynastic Egypt at the Sapienza University of Rome, and was encouraged by a fellow academic to study the Ethiopian-Eritrean highlands. He later researched the ancient period in the northern Horn of Africa and Egypt. In 1975 Fattovich became an assistant professor of Ethiopian archaeology at University of Naples "L'Orientale".