We were saddened to learn of the death of Dr Anna Longa-Prager. As an archaeologist, she both excavated in Poland and cooperated with PCMA UW taking part in numerous seasons of fieldwork in Egypt and Sudan. She participated in excavations at Tell el-Farha, and in the works at the Temple of Hatshepsut in Deir el-Bahari, […]
The annual conference on Polish archaeological research in Egypt, Sudan and – since recently – in Ethiopia, will be held online from 21st to 23rd June 2021. The “Poles on the Nile” conference is co-organized by the Department of Archaeology of Egypt and Nubia, Faculty of Archaeology of the University of Warsaw and the Polish Centre of Mediterranean […]
Prof. John Lund will be the keynote speaker of this year’s “Poles in the Near East” conference. He will open the proceedings with the paper “Cypriots and Cypriot connectivity in the Hellenistic and Roman Periods: A diachronic perspective”. Prof. John Lund is the senior researcher and assistant keeper at the Collection of Classical and Near […]
Registration of participants is now open for the archaeological conference “Poles in the Near East” co-organized by the Polish Centre of Mediterranean Archaeology of the University of Warsaw and the Faculty of Archaeology of the University of Warsaw. This year’s conference will take place online and its program features over 50 presentations by researchers from […]
Another seminar at the PCMA UW Research Centre in Cairo featured research by PCMA scholarship holder Paulina Karwowska. Her presentation was titled “Wall decoration of the First Intermediate Period and Middle Kingdom nobles’ tombs“. Abstract: There are over 100 known decorated tombs dated to the First Intermediate Period and the Middle Kingdom in Egypt. In […]
Archaeologists working in Old Dongola (Sudan) found the remains of what may be the largest church known from medieval Nubia. It could have been the seat of an archbishop governing the church hierarchy over a 1000 km-long stretch along the Nile, between the 1st and 5th cataracts. The archbishop of Dongola oversaw the bishop of […]
Marta Mierzejewska (1984–2020)
University of Warsaw Press prepared digital editions of two books published by PCMA UW. Both can already be found online in open access. The monograph by Urszula Wicenciak “Porphyreon. Hellenistic and Roman Pottery Production in the Sidon Hinterland “and the collection of essays in jubilee volume “Aegyptus et Nubia Christiana. The Włodzimierz Godlewski Jubilee Volume […]
Due to organizational changes at the Polish Centre of Mediterranean Archaeology of the University of Warsaw, carried out on the basis of the new PCMA UW Regulations, the name of the PCMA UW post in the Republic of Sudan has changed. The previous name: “Polish Archaeological Unit in Khartoum PCMA UW” has been replaced with: […]
The Polish Centre of Mediterranean Archaeology of the University of Warsaw is changing its internal structure. Three departments have been established that will bring together researchers dealing with various regions of the broadly understood Mediterranean world. Each of them will be headed by a representative of the department elected for a four-year term of office. […]