Maria Giulia Amadasi Guzzo was a leading scholar in Semitic epigraphy.
She was Professor of Semitic Epigraphy at the Department of Sciences of Antiquity of the Sapienza University of Rome, and the director of the "Museum of the Near East" of the University La Sapienza.
Amadasi participated as an epigrapher in the archaeological missions of the University of Rome in Mozia, Monte Sirai, Tas Silg (Malta); of the Missions, most recently, of the Universities of Naples and Florence and Bologna in Tell Barri and Tell Afis (Syria).
Amadasi also carried out epigraphic missions with the University of Rome and CNR) in Cyprus and Tripolitania in Libya.
She is the author of an extensive bibliography on the history of writing, grammar and Semitic epigraphy.