Camilla Saler

Camilla Saler

Camilla Saler is a Postdoctoral Fellow at the University of Pisa, Department of Civilisations and Forms of Knowledge, where she received her PhD in History in 2025. Her research focuses on the Eastern Mediterranean during the Middle Bronze Age (ca. 2000–1500 BC), with particular attention to the material, iconographic, and textual evidence for religious interaction and cultural transmission between ancient Egypt and the Levant, especially Byblos. Currently, she is actively involved in the project “The Queen Ahhotep Treasure and its Context.” She previously participated in the completed projects PROCESS (Pharaonic Rescission: Objects as Crucibles of Ancient Egyptian Societies) and Godscape (Modelling Second Millennium BCE Polytheisms in the Eastern Mediterranean). Her fieldwork experience includes multiple excavation seasons as a field archaeologist at Dra Abu el-Naga (Luxor) with the University of Pisa, as well as at Heliopolis (Cairo) in collaboration with the University of Leipzig and the Egyptian Ministry of Tourism and Antiquities. She also serves as an editorial assistant for the Ancient Egypt in Context series (Cambridge Elements, Cambridge University Press) and for the journal EVO – Egitto e Vicino Oriente.