Roswitha Del Fabbro studied Archaeology at the University of Udine (Italy), where she obtained her Master’s Degree in 2008 (thesis title: “I gioielli a Mari: Testi, tipologie e archeologia dell’oreficeria di una città siriana sul medio-Eufrate (XVIII sec. a.C.)“). She took part in several archaeological projects in Syria (Mishrifeh/Qatna – archaeological excavation), Turkey (Yassihöyük – archaeological survey), and Italy (Aquileia, San Benedetto dei Marsi, Poggibonsi/Poggio Imperiale, Variano – archaeological excavations). She is currently writing her Ph.D. dissertation (“Archaeological and geoarchaelogical investigation of the Aleppo hinterland“) within the Topoi research group A-I “Central places and their environment“.