Perla Fuscaldo

Elba Perla Fuscaldo (born 1941) is an Argentinian Egyptologist, specialist in the ceramics of Ancient Egypt.

She graduated in 1967 in history from the University of Buenos Aires and obtained her PhD in 1978 under the supervision of Argentinian egyptologist Abraham Rosenvasser.

[1] She was professor in the University of Buenos Aires, director of the Institute of Oriental Ancient History (IHAO-UBA), director of the Program of Studies in Egyptology (PREDE-CONICET), head of the department of Egyptology (IMHICIHU-CONICET, today Unit of Investigations on the Ancient Near East) and honorary researcher at the Museum of Natural Sciences of La Plata.

She is honorary researcher at the Centre of Studies History of the Ancient Orient(Pontifical Catholic University of Argentina).

She participated in the Austrian archaeological mission in Tell the-Dab'to, ancient Avaris, the capital of the Hyksos period, under the supervision of Manfred Bietak.