In the coming month, the PCMA Seminars will focus on collaborative archaeology and heritage studies. The first lecture in the “Heritage Month” series will be Methodologies for Community Archaeology: Reflections from Egypt and Sudan presented by Dr. Gemma Tully. The aim of the “Heritage Month” organized by Dr. Tomomi Fushiya (PCMA UW) is to introduce […]
The Armenian-Polish Archaeological Mission Metsamor invites students willing to participate in this year’s excavations to an orientation meeting. The fieldwork is planned from late August to early October this year. The site of Metsamor is a settlement complex consisting of a fortress surrounded with Cyclopean walls, a lower city adjoining it from the north and […]
On behalf of the Marea Archaeological Project we invite you to the third conference on the results of archaeological research in this antique city. The archaeological site known as “Marea” is located on the Hawwariya Peninsula on the southern shore of Lake Mareotis, 45 km west of Alexandria. Polish archaeologists have been working there since […]
The upcoming PCMA Seminar will showcase the advances in research on ancient Nubian textiles undertaken recently, among others, at the PCMA UW. The event entitled “Textile archaeology in ancient Nubia. Methods and perspectives” will feature three separate presentations. Thanks to its arid climate, Nubia is the scene of many discoveries of well-preserved textile assemblages, recovered […]
A seminar by the Archaeo-Oriental Studies Research Group at the University of Warsaw will feature a lecture by Assoc. Prof. Arkadiusz Sołtysiak (Faculty of Archaeology UW) entitled: “New research perspectives in bioarchaeology: histology meets isotopes”. The lecture will be held in Polish, on 14th March 2022 at 11:30 am CET, on Zoom. Link to the […]
Over the last two weeks, as part of the National Geographic Society Exploration Grant funded project “The People of Ghazali: Tracing the Human Experience in a Nubian Desert Monastic Community (680–1275 CE)” Dr. Robert Stark conducted a series of public engagement events in Khartoum, Sudan. These public engagement events with students, Sudanese archaeologists, and community […]
The next PCMA Seminar will feature a talk (rescheduled from the autumn) by Dr. Piotr Makowski, entitled “Towards a better understanding of the chronological and geographical distribution patterns of plain and painted handmade wares in Bilād al-Shām”. Abstract: “For nearly the entire span of the Islamic period plain and painted handmade wares were immutable components […]
Recording of Dr. Carol Meyer’s presenation “Bir Umm Fawakhir, a Byzantine period gold mining town in the Eastern Desert of Egypt” is now available on the PCMA UW YouTube channel. It was another PCMA Seminar delving into the subject of the exploitation of natural resources in the Eastern Desert in antiquity. This time, the topic […]
A seminar by the Archaeo-Oriental Studies Research Group at the University of Warsaw will host a presentation by Dr Marta Żuchowska (Faculty of Archaeology) and Dr Ewa Paśnik-Tułowiecka (Faculty of Oriental Studies) entitled: “Preliminary study on meditation caves of Upper Mustang”. Abstract: “The presentation was produced as part of a grant awarded by Archaeo-Oriental Study […]
The Senate of the University of Warsaw expresses solidarity with Ukraine and their struggle against the overt aggression. Facing the Russian invasion on the Ukrainian territory, the Senate of the University of Warsaw expresses our solidarity with Ukrainian citizens, especially the Ukrainian students and colleagues who are part of the community of the University of […]