In 1962 under the direction of Froehlich Rainey (Museum Director from 1947-1976), the University Museum undertook a collaborative project with the Lerici Foundation in Rome and the Archaeological Soprintendenza of Reggio Calabria to search for the site of Sybaris, a Greek colony on the Gulf of Tarentum (now Taranto). It was founded in 720 B.C. and destroyed ca. 510 B.C, after which the city of Thurii was reportedly built above the ruins. The Sybaris project developed into a pioneering survey expedition that featured one of the first archaeological uses of magnetometry, a remote sensing technique that measures variations in the magnetic fields of buried structures.