Since 2015 he started the archaeological exploration and protection activities, again in cooperation with the Palestinian Ministry of Tourism and Antiquities, in the Bronze and Iron Age necropolises of the Bethlehem urban area (including Khalet al-Jam'a,[1] Jebel Dhaher, and Bardhaa[2]) and at the site of Tell esh-Sheikh Abu Zarad, ancient Tappuah.
Since 2013 he has been Director of the Sapienza Museum of the Near East, Egypt and the Mediterranean, of which he oversaw the rearrangement in the new headquarters of the Rectorate Palace (rear side, Sala Piacentiniana), increasing the collections and organizing them, from the inauguration on 19 March 2015, a series of exhibitions and scientific events.
Since 2019, together with Moez Achour and Mounir Fantar of the Institut National du Patrimonie of Tunisia, he has led the excavations of the Sapienza in Carthage on the Odéon Hill and at the necropolis of Dermech in the area of the Baths of Antoninus (2019-2023).
In Motya he identified several archaic structures: the prehistoric layers of the 2nd millennium BC, the Fondaco which was the first Phoenician settlement on the island, which he dated to the beginning of the 8th century BC, the Circular Tèmenos with the Temple of Baal and Astarte, the Western Fortress, the House of the Domestic Sacellum, the House of Triton's Horn, and resumed the excavations of the so-called Temple of Cappiddazzu (probably dedicated to the Phoenician god Melqart/Herakles); he has also excavated the Tofet, the sanctuary for incinerated children (carrying out important analyzes of ancient DNA) and, extensively resuming the exploration of the walls, to which he has dedicated two fundamental studies (Nigro 2019 and 2020).
In Jordan, the identification in 2004 and the subsequent exploration of the ancient city of Khirbet al-Batrawy led to the discovery of the "Palace of the Copper Axes" in which important finds from the third millennium were preserved in a layer of destruction BC, among which five copper axes (today exhibited in the National Archaeological Museum of the Citadel of Amman) a necklace with 630 pearls and various potter's wheels, as well as various Egyptian finds (a lotus vase, a slate palette, a fragmentary serekh and a pearl of amazonite), which have made it possible to recognize the commercial relations of Batrawy at the time of the Pharaohs of the IV-VI Dynasty.
The Revolution of prehistory and I genî di Mozia, dedicated respectively to the Neolithic Age in the oldest city in the world and to the saga of Giuseppe Whitaker's family and to the mystery of Garibaldi's treasure.