A call for papers is now open for the sixth edition of the archaeological conference “Poles in the Near East”. The event will be held online from June 8th to 10th 2022. The conference is co-organized by the Polish Centre of Mediterranean Archaeology, University of Warsaw, and the Department of Oriental Archaeology, Faculty of Archaeology, […]
Another volume in the Polish Publications in Mediterranean Archaeology series from Peeters Publishers is a monograph by Dr. Urszula Wicenciak-Núñez presenting the results of her research on pottery from Chhim (Lebanon). The book is now available in Open Access. This monograph is the result of many seasons of research conducted by Dr. Wicenciak-Núñez on the […]
We are pleased to announce that the public defense of the doctoral dissertation of Piotr Zakrzewski of the PCMA UW, took place on Wednesday, January 26, 2022. The dissertation topic is “Munitiones castrorum. Fortifications of the Roman legionary camp in Novae of the principate period (1st-3rd century AD). The dissertation presents all documented elements of […]
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. […]
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 […]
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 […]
“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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
Fieldwork in Soba, the former capital of the Kingdom of Alwa – today, a suburb of Khartoum – was paused for a mid-season break in mid-December. It was carried out by a team of specialists led by Dr. Mariusz Drzewiecki from the Polish Centre of Mediterranean Archaeology, University of Warsaw. Soba is one of the […]