...Con l'occhio del satellite

This volume presents some results of the research programme Egyptian Curses on ancient cataclysms carried out by the Egyptological research unit of the National Research Council of Italy (CNR) within the framework of the Project PRIN 2009 (Progetti di rilevante interesse nazionale/Research projects of relevant national interest) "The Seven Plagues". A first glance on the project has been presented in the volume Egyptian Curse 1. The CNR Team is a multidisciplinary group, composed by researchers of the National Research Council of Italy and scholar from other prestigious institutions, who have contributed to this volume. The first section "Egypt" includes four contributions, two on case-studies from literary sources and two from archaeological data. The second section relates "Near East" studies. A paper by G. Squillace presents a research on the Greek sources regarding the Egyptian medicine. At the end, a wide section concerns remote sensing, environment and survey technologies. The ancient Egypt, with its rich documentation, is a good observation point to understand the human response to cataclysms and to examine destructive events in their mythopoietic perspective. On the other hand, data from ancient cataclysms can be useful for investigating current environmental problems, and vice versa.