The Department of Middle East Studies PCMA UW holds a workshop: “Pottery in Archaeology. From archaeometric analysis to social aspects of Bronze and Iron Age Pottery in Northern Oman”. It is related to the PCMA UW project in the Qumayrah micro-region in the Hajar mountains of Northern Oman. This workshop focuses on the production and […]
The PCMA Seminar will host an online workshop titled: “Results of Recent Excavations at the Blemmyan Necropolis in Berenike (Egyptian Eastern Desert)”. Over the course of 11 presentations, the team led by Dr. Mariusz Gwiazda will share the findings from their latest research season. Abstract: “During the 2023 and 2024 excavation seasons in Berenike, extensive […]
Among the winners of the National Science Centre (NCN) Sonata 19 competition is Dr. Julia Burdajewicz’s project “Wall painting and stucco decoration of the Lower Basilica at ‘Marea’/Philoxenite as a testimony of the decoration of Alexandrian churches. An iconographic, stylistic, and technical study.” She will carry out this project within the consortium of the Academy […]
The Polish Centre of Mediterranean Archaeology of the University of Warsaw will host Dr. Roman Hovsepyan, an archaeobotanist and ethnobotanist from the Armenian Academy of Sciences. His visit in Poland is part of the Excellence Initiative–Research University “Mentoring Programme”. During his stay, Dr. Hovsepyan will give an open lecture at the University of Warsaw. Dr. […]
The aim of the international workshop „Pottery production, distribution and use during the Iron Age in Armenia” is to present the latest results of research on Iron age pottery from Armenia conducted within the framework of traditional as well as interdisciplinary approaches. From the perspective of ceramic studies conducted in the Republic of Armenia, the […]
At the latest meeting of the PCMA UW Council on April 30th, 2024, changes in the management of the PCMA UW Research Centre in Cairo were approved. The duties of the head of the Centre were entrusted to Tomasz Kania. At the same time, we thank the outgoing Prof. Anna Wodzińska for carrying out this […]
On April 18th, the International Day for Monuments and Sites, also recognized as World Heritage Day, is being celebrated. To mark this occasion, the colleagues at the UNESCO World Heritage site in Nea Paphos (Cyprus) have organized activities for students from a local primary school. Under the supervision of members of the expedition led by […]
Program for the “Chrysomallos: Polish Archaeologists in the Black Sea Region and the Caucasus” conference has been finalized. The conference will be held in a hybrid format on Thursday, April 11th. Attendees can expect a series of presentations (in Polish) unveiling the latest findings from Polish archaeological excavations in Armenia, Georgia, as well as studies […]
The annual conference on Polish archaeological research in Egypt and Sudan “Poles on the Nile” will take place on 19th–21st of June in a hybrid format. The conference is co-organized by the Department of Archaeology of Egypt and Nubia at the Faculty of Archaeology, University of Warsaw and the Department of African Studies of the Polish […]
A monograph on the wall paintings from late antique Porphyreon (today’s Jiyeh) in Lebanon by Julia M. Burdajewicz has been released in open access. The book was published by Peeters Publishers in the series “Polish Publications in Mediterranean Archaeology”. In 1975, a bulldozer working on a beach in southern Lebanon unearthed dressed stones with wall […]