Virgilio Canio Corbo
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Virgilio Canio Corbo (1918 - December 6, 1991) was an Italian Franciscan Friar and professor of archaeology at the Studium Biblicum Franciscanum in Jerusalem.
He is remembered for the excavations of many religious sites:
- the Shepherds' field near Bethlehem
- the place of the Ascension on the Mount of Olives
- Herodium, a fortress-palace and funeral site of Herod the Great
- Machaerus, another Herodian fortress-palace across the Dead Sea in modern-day Jordan, the site of the decapitation of St John the Baptist
- Georgian Bir El Qutt inscriptions
- a Byzantine basilica and monastery on Mt. Nebo in Jordan
- the church of the Holy Sepulchre
- the ancient city of Magdala
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