The Egyptological research activities of Sapienza University of Rome. From archaeology to topography and beyond

The Egyptological research of Sapienza Università di Roma includes a variety of activities and fieldworks: from the archaeological expedition at Bakchias (26th dynasty-Late Antiquity), a settlement located in the Fayyūm region, to the study of the transformation of religious space from pharaonic to Christian period, to the realization of a digital archaeological atlas of Coptic literature that aims at exploring and representing the process of production, copying, usage, dissemination, and storage of Coptic works in relation to the geo-archaeological contexts of origin of both the texts themselves and their related writing supports. This article summarizes the main goals of all these projects and the main scientific results achieved until now