Virgilio Canio Corbo

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