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 […]
During the ongoing Open Access Week, Prof. Michał Gawlikowski’s monograph “Le sanctuaire d’Allat à Palmyre” has been released in Open Access by the University of Warsaw Press. The book presents the results of research in the temple of the goddess Allat in the Syrian city of Palmyra. The discovery of the temple by PCMA UW […]
Presentations in the PCMA Seminar series will continue this November with Dr. Paweł Polkowski’s talk: “Dakhleh Oasis: The last 10 years of rock art research”. Dr. Paweł Polkowski of the Polish Centre of Mediterranean Archaeology, University of Warsaw (PCMA UW) and the Archaeological Museum in Poznań has led the Dakhleh Oasis Project Petroglyph Unit, working […]
We are sorry to have to cancel Dr. Piotr Makowski’s talk at the PCMA Seminar due to unforeseen personal circumstances. We hope to be able to organize it at a later date. Dr. Piotr Makowski’s lecture “Towards a better understanding of the chronological and geographical distribution patterns of plain and painted handmade wares in Bilād […]
At the Łańcut Castle a ceremony was held on 23rd October 2021 to present one of the Benedykt Polak Awards to Dr. Eng. Wojciech Kołątaj, a long-time employee of the Polish Centre of Mediterranean Archaeology in Cairo. The Benedykt Polak Award has been awarded annually since 2015 to two laureates, a Pole and a foreigner, […]