Alfredo Aldo Carlo Luvino, Egyptologist, graduated and specialized with Silvio Curto
with a thesis on the relations between Egypt and Achaemenid Persia in the XXVII dynasty with
particular attention to the kingdoms of Cambyses and Darius I. Professor of Egyptology at
the Popular University from Turin, held a course in American
Studies (from Teotihuacan to the Aztecs) as well as lectures in various Italian cities and on
local televisions with interventions on national networks. Former scientific collaborator of the Egyptian Museum
of Turin, he has held conferences and courses, among others, in Bergamo, Brescia, Turin,
Cairo. Esperantist, participated in Italian and international Egyptology conferences,
Archeology in general and Americanistic and he followed
experimental Archeology projects , both with his
late friend Silvano Borrelli on navigation and weapons in Ancient Egypt, and with Osvaldo Falesiedi about the theory of "cradles"
used to lift the blocks of the pyramids for the Imhotep Association, the theory
of which has been given in the volume La culla di Erodoto. Vice-president of the
Italo-Arab Cultural Center Dar al Hikma in Turin, which addresses the integration of
different cultures, has organized meetings, conferences, debates and conferences for the same with representatives of Italian, European and Islamic culture. Editorial director of

quality publishing houses has traveled to Europe, Mexico, Tibet, Nepal, Turkey,
Burma, Cambodia, India, has led numerous study and tourism trips to
Egypt, has participated in the works for the publication of Paser's tomb in Dra Abu el
Naga, excavated with Manfred Bietak of the University of Vienna in Qantir and took part
in the expedition wanted by the Egyptian Museum of Turin to find the tomb of Itj in
Gebelein, already brought to light by Ernesto Schiaparelli in the early twentieth century.
He is the author of numerous scientific and popular articles, as well as novels set
in the Nile Valley, The third month of the flood (Turin 1991; 1996; 2005), The
Mystery of the pendant of Hori (Milan 1992), Ramses and the riddle of Qadesh (Turin
1997), Tahrir in the breath of dawn (Turin 2012), The curse of the golden cubit
(Turin 2013), Lucento and the enigma of Cheope (Turin 2019) and a story I
loved you for your voice included in the volume Seven tales for seven evenings (Turin 2012).
His also a novel linked to magic Turin, The legend of Eridanus (Turin
2004) whose income was used to partially build a hospital in
Mozambique named after his parents. Essays, The Lady of the Fabrics. Stories and
love poems of Ancient Egypt (Turin 1992), the king of kings in the black earth. The
Persia discovers Egypt. Cambise and Dario faraoni (Turin 1993), The gift of the Nile.
Introduction to the civilization of the pharaohs (Turin 1997), Prophecies and prophets. Religion, magic and interpretation of the future in Ancient Egypt (Turin 2003), In the light of Maat. The spatiality of the sacred. A truth about the pyramids and the Old Kingdom (Turin 2010), Eroticism and sexuality in ancient Egypt (Turin 2015) with English edition, Eroticism and sexuality in Ancient Egypt (Turin 2018), The invisible religion
(Turin 2017), Nile secret (Turin 2018), The sacrifice of a smoking mirror. History,
religion and society of the Aztecs (Turin 2019). He has written introductions to different
volumes (Long spear son of the bison, Turin 1994, Paths in the clouds, Turin
1998, The cradle of Herodotus, Turin 1998 ...) and has given birth to a fairy tale, Icarus for
another light, which, combined with those of twenty other Italian writers (Dacia Maraini, Bruno Gambarotta, Lorenzo Mondo ...), has been included in the volume Palette of fables
(Turin 1992) wanted by the Turin Lyons in favor of children suffering from AIDS . He is
also the author of most of the texts of the Turin volume between straight streets and corners of history. From Augusta Taurinorun to Europe (Turin 1993). Among others, his three
interventions in the volumes L'anarchia del sacro (Milan 2010), Under the sky of
freedom (Turin 2010) and Il sin (Turin 2012). Next publication a text on

Prostitution in Egypt and in the ancient world.