Evaristo Breccia

Annibale Evaristo Breccia (18 July 1876, Offagna - 28 July 1967, Rome) was an Italian egyptologist, the second director of the Greco-Roman Museum of Alexandria and rector of the University of Pisa.

From 1 April 1904 to 29 October 1932 he was the director of the Greco-Roman Museum of Alexandria where he succeeded Giuseppe Botti.

[3] Additionally, he conducted excavations in a number of sites including Alexandria, Giza, Hermopolis, Fayum, Middle Egypt, Oxyrhynchus, El Hiba, Antinoe and Cyrene.

[7] After his death his wife, Paolina Salluzzi, donated his archive to the University of Pisa.

The archive includes his correspondence, his manuscripts such as notes, publication projects, excavation reports and photographs, drawings of monuments and finds, and photographic plates.