061: Archaeological Tour in Egypt: Giza, Saqqara, Luxor and a Nile cruise to Aswan

Staff

Fernando Contreras Rodrigo (Lérida. Spain - 1967)

A graduate in History specializing in Classical Archaeology (Autonomous University of Barcelona), he is the Director and Manager of the Sanisera Archaeology Institute, an international organization that has been developing archaeological training courses for over 30 years at the Sanisera archaeological site (Menorca, Balearic Islands, Spain)[cite: 5]. Since 1993, he has also carried out archaeological research, conservation, and heritage management projects in Spain, Italy, and the United Arab Emirates[cite: 5]. Since 2015, he has led annual excavation and restoration missions for the Government of Dubai[cite: 5]. He is the author of more than thirty publications and reports[cite: 5]. He is proficient in standard archaeological fieldwork technologies, including ArcGIS, AutoCAD, GPS data capture, drone and total station aerial photography, databases, photogrammetry, and archaeological illustration[cite: 5]. He has experience leading multidisciplinary and multicultural teams of up to 25 people, as well as preparing budgets, tenders, grant applications, project proposals, and technical reports[cite: 5]. He also designs and develops database software for the management of archaeological heritage, a line of work that he started with his B.O.I.R.A. system (Organizational Base of Information of the Archaeological Register) and which he is now expanding with the support of artificial intelligence[cite: 5].

José Luis López Delgado (Palma de Mallorca, Spain – 1965)

Guide specialized in Egypt with more than forty tours led across the country, from Cairo and the Giza pyramids to Upper Egypt. A deep connoisseur of the Egyptian world, he combines that experience with a long-standing interest in classical archaeology and a specialization in Roman numismatics, a field in which he has studied materials from various excavations.

He has collaborated for years with the Sanisera Archaeology Institute in its research lines and is co-author of several articles published by the institute on the Roman city of Sanisera (Menorca)[cite: 11, 15]. On the Archaeological Tour in Egypt he is the professor in charge of guiding the group through the sites and museums of the itinerary, providing the archaeological and historical reading of each place[cite: 11, 15].