Sara Pizzimenti is an Associate Professor of Archaeology of the Ancient Near East. Co-director of the Omani-Italian Archaeological Expedition at Al Tikha (Oman) and Field Director of the Lagash Archaeological Project (Iraq), she is also currently a member of the Iraqi-Italian Archaeological Expedition at East Nineveh (Iraq), where she is responsible for the “Early Nineveh Project”, deputy director of the Italian Archaeological Expedition at Karkemish (Turkey), and in charge of the “Early Karkemish Project”. She has extensive field experience, having participated in excavations in Syria (Ebla), Turkey (Arslantepe and Karkemish), Jordan (Jebel Al Mutawwaq), Iraq (Lagash and Nigin), and Oman (Al Tikha). She is also co-director of the Omani-Italian Archaeological Expedition at Al Tikha (Oman) and Field Director of the Lagash Archaeological Project (Iraq). Her main research interests include the archaeology of Mesopotamia, the Gulf, and southeastern Arabia, with a focus on the 3rd millennium BC, Bronze Age material culture (pottery), and archaeoastronomy.