in the field of safeguard of cultural property. He was decorated, with NATO and Italian medals because he was officer during the peace-keeping missions IFOR and SFOR, in Bosnia and Herzegovina and Alba, in Albania. Professor Maniscalco was Vice President of the Italian Committee of the Blue Shield, and member of the scientific committees of the Observatory Euro-Mediterranean and the Black Sea and of the "Museo della Nave Romana di Grado" (Italian Ministry for Cultural heritage". Moreover, he was member of the International Council on Monuments and Sites (ICOMOS) and honorary member of: Italian Union of the European Writers and Artists (UIL); Italian Association of Archaeologists and Forum per la Laguna di Venezia. He died in Naples on 1 February 2008, for complications due to his rare shape of adenocarcinoma of the pancreas. Bibliography Books on protection of cultural property Fabio Maniscalco, World Heritage and War, (2006) . Fabio Maniscalco, Protection of Nigerian Cultural Property (2006) Fabio Maniscalco (editor), Protection, Conservation and Exploitation of Palestinian Cultural Heritage, (2005). Fabio Maniscalco, Protection of Cultural property in Algeria, (2003). Fabio Maniscalco (editor), Protection of Cultural Heritage in War Areas, (2002). Fabio Maniscalco (editor), La tutela dei beni culturali in Italia,(2002). Fabio Maniscalco, Kosovo and Metohija 1998-2000, (2000). Fabio Maniscalco, Furti d'Autore. La tutela del patrimonio culturale mobile napoletano dal dopoguerra alla fine del XX secolo, (2000). Fabio Maniscalco, Jus Praedae, (1999). Fabio Maniscalco, Frammenti di storia venduta. I tesori di Albania, (1998). Fabio Maniscalco, Sarajevo: itinerari artistici perduti, (1997). Books on underwater archaeology Fabio Maniscalco (editor),Protection, Conservation and Valorization of underwater cultural Property, 2004. Fabio Maniscalco, Piero Alfredo Gianfrotta (editors), Forma Maris. Forum internazionale di archeologia subacquea, (2001). Fabio Maniscalco, Fondamenti di archeologia subacquea, (1998). Fabio Maniscalco, Ninfei ed edifici marittimi severiani del Palatium imperiale di Baia, (1997). Fabio Maniscalco, Il nuoto nel mondo greco-romano, (1995). Fabio Maniscalco, Archeologia Subacquea, (1992). Other Fabio Maniscalco has published more than 200 papers, in international journals and books, and numerous Appeals for the safeguard of Cultural Property in areas of crisis. Notes External links Observatory for Protection of Cultural Heritage in Areas of Crisis Web Journal on Cultural Patrimony Mediterraneum. Protection and exploitation of cultural and environmental heritage Osservatorio Euromediterraneo e mar Nero I.S.Fo.R.M. Massa Publisher 1965 births 2008 deaths People from Naples Italian archaeologists Italian male writers Academic staff of the University of Naples Federico II 20th-century archaeologists