Archaeology and Environment. Understanding the Past to Design the Future: A Multidisciplinary Approach. Proceedings of the International Workshop "Italian days in Aswan", 16th-18th November 20013

Scientific Committee of the series: Maria Perla Colombini, Daniele Malfitana, Angelo Massacci, Paolo Mauriello, Paolo Messina, Alessandro Naso, Francesco Porcelli, Gihane Zaki. Abstract. The Aswan Conference was the result of a collaboration involving the CNR Institute of Ancient Mediterranean Studies (CNR-ISMA), the Scientific Office at the Embassy of Italy in Egypt, the Nubia Museum and the Nubia Fund (Egyptian Ministry of Antiquities), UNESCO - Cairo Office and Aswan University. The theme of the Conference can be summarized in three words: Science meets Archaeology. Geologists, physicists, meteorologists, biologists, experts in ICT, remote sensing and in the analysis of satellite data, met with archaeologists, museologists and conservators to discuss, initially, how climatic and cataclysmic events affected the evolution of ancient civilizations in the course of history. Inevitably, it became an occasion to discuss how scientists, archaeologists and more generally operators of cultural heritage can work together.