EAGLE: storia di un'idea dalle origini all'ingresso di EDF

The present paper provides a short history of EAGLE: it was born in 2003 as Electronic Archive of Greek and Latin Epigraphy, a federation of databases that share the same concept of digital epigraphy; in the period 2013-2016 it becomes Europeana network of Ancient Greek and Latin Epigraphy, aggregator and content provider of Europeana; since 2020 it includes also EDF (Epigraphic Database Falsae), the first database devoted to different kinds of epigraphic forgeries.