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Zbigniew Godziejewski (1951–2022)
The sudden passing of Zbigniew Godziejewski, a conservator and long-term participant of PCMA UW fieldwork, is an irreparable loss for his friends and colleagues from the expeditions of which he was an indispensable part. Zbigniew Godziejewski worked with us for over 30 years, beginning in the early 1990s when he participated in excavations at Palmyra. […]
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Ifao-PCMA UW Fellowship awarded to Dr. Fatma Keshk
For the fourth time, PCMA UW Research Centre in Cairo and Institut français d’archéologie orientale awarded their joint Post-Doctoral Fellowship. The new Fellow is Dr. Fatma Keshk who will organize an interdisciplinary conference on houses and domestic life in ancient Egypt and Sudan. Dr. Keshk, who is based in Cairo, is a graduate of Leiden […]
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Dongola and Deir el-Bahari: new books in Open Access from Peeters
The first two volumes of the Polish Publications in Mediterranean Archaeology series are now available online. The first one is devoted to the results of research in Dongola (Sudan), and the second to the Temple of Hatshepsut in Deir el-Bahari (Egypt). The first volume of the PPMA, titled Old Dongola: Development, Heritage, Archaeology. Fieldwork in […]
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Tadmor – Palmyra. New monograph by Michał Gawlikowski
“Tadmor – Palmyra. A Caravan City between East and West” is a new book by Prof. Michał Gawlikowski, the long-time director of PCMA UW expedition in this city. It has been published by IRSA Foundation for the Promotion of Culture and is available in Open Access. The book tells the story of the site as […]
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Qumayrah Valley in Oman: ancient towers, copper trade and games
At the end of December, another season of archaeological fieldwork in Qumayrah Valley in Northern Oman came to a close. Archaeologists identified there another tower in a Bronze Age settlement, unearthed evidence of copper smelting and discovered a 4 thousand-year-old… game board! The work is carried out by an Omani-Polish project “The development of settlement […]
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Cairo – an African Metropolis. A Kazimierz Michałowski Memorial Lecture by Prof. Timothy Insoll
Professor Timothy Insoll will present a lecture in the PCMA UW Research Centre in Cairo as part of the Kazimierz Michałowski Memorial Lecture Series. Prof. Insoll’s talk is entitled: “Cairo – an African Metropolis. Archaeological Perspectives on Contacts between Cairo and Eastern Ethiopia in the 12th to 15th Centuries”. Abstract: Archaeological material from recent excavations […]
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