Dario Piombino-Mascali

Dario Piombino-Mascali

Research professor, Faculty of Medicine

Research

Research Interests
  • Paleopathology, mummy research, bioanthropology, historical medicine, children's health.

Subjects Taught

  • Human Biology(English)(2026)

Biography


2025 – 2025
University of Salento

Associate Professor

2023 – 2025
University of Salento

Adjunct Professor

2018 – present
Vilnius University

Principal Investigator

2017 – 2026
Cranfield University

Visiting Fellow

2008 – 2012
EURAC

Senior Researcher

2004 – 2007
University of Pisa

Doctor

No data available

  • [Articles] Piombino Mascali, Dario; Girčius, Rokas; Curate, Francisco; Santos, Carlos; Amarante, Ana Isabel; Sousa, Sandra; Cunha, Eugenia. Echoes of privilege: a mummified case of DISH from 18th‐century Portugal // International journal of osteoarchaeology. Hoboken : John Wiley & Sons Ltd. ISSN 1047-482X. eISSN 1099-1212. 2026, vol. 36, iss. 1, p. 142-149. DOI: 10.1002/oa.70066.

  • [Articles] Mollica Nardo, Angela; Piombino Mascali, Dario; Lo Bue, Aurora Giovanna; De Leo, Filomena; Urzì, Clara Enza. Preserved human remains from Militello Rosmarino (Sicily, 18th–19th centuries AD): assessing the microbial status of a late modern Italian mummy assemblage // Anthropologischer Anzeiger. Stuttgart : E. Schweizerbart’sche Verlagsbuchhandlung. ISSN 0003-5548. 2026, vol. 83, no. 1, p. 73-88. DOI: 10.1127/anthranz/1913.

  • [Articles] Squires, Kirsty; Piombino Mascali, Dario; Urzì, Clara; Huffer, Damien. The real mummy’s curse: Health risks associated with the sale and trade of mummified remains // International journal of cultural property. Cambridge : Cambridge University Press. ISSN 0940-7391. eISSN 1465-7317. 2026, vol. 33, art. no. e22, p. 1-23. DOI: 10.1017/S0940739126100393.sm001.

  • [Articles] Mialkowskyj, Damian Luka; Kozakaitė, Justina; Brindzaitė, Rūta; Jankauskas, Rimantas; Piombino Mascali, Dario. Aortic paleopathology: osteological evidence of an aortic aneurysm in historic human remains from Lithuania (17th–18th centuries AD) // Anthropologischer Anzeiger. Stuttgart : E. Schweizerbart’sche Verlagsbuchhandlung. ISSN 0003-5548. 2026, vol. 83, no. 1, p. 21-29. DOI: 10.1127/anthranz/1853.

  • [Articles] Valčiukaitė, Eglė; Zaboras, Edgaras; Suchomlinov, Andrej; Piombino Mascali, Dario. Preserving paleoteratological history: a study of congenital anomalies from Vilnius University’s medical collection // Forensic science, medicine and pathology : Springer Nature. ISSN 1547-769X. eISSN 1556-2891. 2026, vol. 22, iss. 2, p. 629-633. DOI: 10.1007/s12024-025-01161-x.

  • [Articles] Larentis, Omar; Gorini, Ilaria; Campus, Michele; Vanin, Stefano; Tonina, Enrica; Carta, Giuseppina; Carli, Alberto; De Luca, Lisa; Piombino Mascali, Dario. Petrified child mummies by Paolo Gorini (19th century CE, Lodi, Lombardy, Italy): anthropological, pathological, and conservation perspectives // Frontiers in medicine. Lausanne : Frontiers Media SA. eISSN 2296-858X. 2025, vol. 12, p. [1-18]. DOI: 10.3389/fmed.2025.1692282.

  • [Articles] Morrone, Alessandra; Piombino Mascali, Dario; Saupe, Tina; Sepp, Holar; Valk, Heiki; Oras, Ester; Tõrv, Mari. Reconstructing infant feeding practices through stable isotope analysis: applying intrabone sampling to a medieval–early modern Estonian dataset // Journal of archaeological science: reports. Amsterdam : Elsevier BV. ISSN 2352-409X. 2025, vol. 66, art. no. 105305, p. [1-18]. DOI: 10.1016/j.jasrep.2025.105305.

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  • [Articles] Piombino Mascali, Dario; Grimaldi, Fausto; Liberto, Aldo; Ministeri, Federica; Privitera, Federico; Pomara, Cristoforo. Flectamus genua. Gonarthrosis in the remains of the Blessed Giuseppe Benedetto Dusmet (Catania, Italy, 19th Century AD) = Flectamus genua. Palaimintojo Juozapo Benedikto Dusmeto palaikų gonartrozė (Katanija, Italija, XIX a.) // Acta medica Lituanica. Vilnius : Vilniaus universiteto leidykla. ISSN 1392-0138. eISSN 2029-4174. 2025, vol. 32, no. 1, p. 236-243. DOI: 10.15388/Amed.2025.32.1.24.

    https://www.journals.vu.lt/AML/article/view/36192/39569
  • [Articles] Piombino Mascali, Dario; Girčius, Rokas; Tamošiūnas, Algirdas Edvardas; Jankauskas, Rimantas; Brindzaitė, Rūta; Kozakaitė, Justina. Mummies tell stories: CT investigation of eight members of the Kėdainiai elite (Grand Duchy of Lithuania, 17th-18th centuries AD) // Frontiers in medicine. Lausanne : Frontiers Media SA. eISSN 2296-858X. 2025, vol. 12, p. [1-10]. DOI: 10.3389/fmed.2025.1532751.

  • [Articles] Piombino Mascali, Dario; Squires, Kirsty; Zink, Albert. Ethical challenges in the bioanthropological and biomedical investigation of Sicilian mummies—Past experience and future pathways // American journal of biological anthropology. Hoboken : Wiley. ISSN 2692-7691. eISSN 2692-7691. 2025, vol. 186, iss. 1, art. no. e24946, p. [1-8]. DOI: 10.1002/ajpa.24946.