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Ha conseguito il Dottorato di Ricerca in Civilt\u00e0 del Vicino e Medio Oriente (Egittologia) all\u2019Universit\u00e0 di Toronto, dove ha anche insegnato la storia dell\u2019antico Egitto e la lingua egiziana classica (Medio Egiziano) per diversi anni. Ha inoltre conseguito la Laurea Magistrale in Lingue e Culture del Vicino e Medio Oriente (Egittologia) all\u2019Universit\u00e0 di Pisa e la Laurea Triennale in Conservazione dei Beni Culturali (Archeologia del Vicino Oriente) all\u2019Universit\u00e0 Ca\u2019 Foscari di Venezia. \u00c9 autrice di numerose pubblicazioni scientifiche e ha partecipato a diversi convegni internazionali. Nel 2021 \u00e8 stata eletta membro della Royal Historical Society di Londra nel 2021, e dal 2023 \u00e8 membro della Higher Education Academy (Accademia di Formazione Superiore) del Regno Unito. <br \/>\r\nSilvia \u00e8 specializzata nella religione e testi funerari dell\u2019antico Egitto, e in particolare l\u2019evoluzione nel tempo dei concetti dell\u2019aldil\u00e0, argomento su cui ha appena pubblicato la monografia A Journey through the Beyond: The Development of the Concept of Duat and Related Cosmological Notions in Egyptian Funerary Literature (Columbus: Lockwood Press, 2022). La sua ricerca include anche le pratiche magiche e rituali, la concettualizzazione e l\u2019uso dei paesaggi sacri nell\u2019antico Egitto, e i contatti interculturali e la trasmissione del sapere nell\u2019Egitto Greco-Romano. <br \/>\r\n<br \/>\r\nSilvia Zago is a Lecturer in Egyptology in the Department of Archaeology, Classics and Egyptology of the University of Liverpool and the coordinator of the Liverpool Schools Classics Project. She obtained her PhD in Near and Middle Eastern Civilizations (Egyptology) from the University of Toronto, where she also taught ancient Egyptian history and Middle Egyptian for several years. She moreover holds an MA in Languages and Cultures of the Near and Middle East (Egyptology) from the University of Pisa and a BA in Heritage Studies (Near Eastern Archaeology) from Ca' Foscari University of Venice. She is the author of several peer-reviewed publications and has participated in numerous international conferences. 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