Background
Matthiae, Paolo was born on January 9, 1940 in Rome. Son of Guglielmo and Giuseppina (Soave) Matthiae.
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Matthiae, Paolo was born on January 9, 1940 in Rome. Son of Guglielmo and Giuseppina (Soave) Matthiae.
Graduate in Letters, University Rome, 1962.
He was Professor of Archaeology and History of Art of the Ancient Near East in the University of Rome Louisiana Sapienza. He has been Director of the Ebla Expedition since 1963—in fact, its discoverer—and has published many articles and books about Ebla and about the History of Art of Mesopotamia and Syria in general. In 1972 and 1973, Matthiae co-directed the excavation of Tell Fray in the Euphrates Valley that was to be flooded by Lake Assad, the reservoir of the Tabqa Dam which was being constructed at that time.
(The rediscovery of Ebla in Northern Syria has been hailed...)
(237 pp. with 48 figs. & numerous illus., 8vo.)
Lincean Academy]
He is a member of institutions as the Accademia Nazionale dei Lincei (Rome), the Academie des Inscriptions et Belles-Lettres and the Deutsches Archaeologisches Institut, and is doctor Honoris Causa of the Autonomous University of Madrid.
Married Gabriella Scandone, July 1, 1964.