PCMA field missions and projects in 2017 (with map) Alexandria, Kom el-Dikka. Season 2017, pp. 35–56 DOI: 10.5604/01.3001.0013.1964 Author: Grzegorz Majcherek (In the Index Copernicus database) Marina el Alamein: newly discovered bath after the 2017 season, pp. 57–66 DOI: 10.5604/01.3001.0013.1965 Author: Krzysztof Jakubiak (In the Index Copernicus database) Research and architectural conservation in Marina […]
Book Dongola 2015–2016. Fieldwork, Conservation and Site Management is now available online. It has been published in PCMA Excavation Series, which also features a volume of reports from earlier seasons of work at the site. The royal city of Old Dongola was the political and economic center of Makuria, a medieval Christian kingdom in Nubia. The Polish Centre […]
We present the tenth publication in the PCMA Monograph Series: Glass bead trade in Northeast Africa. The evidence from Meroitic and post-Meroitic Nubia. The volume is authored by Dr Joanna Then-Obłuska. Strings of colorful glass beads were a popular commodity traded throughout ancient Nubia in the earlier half of the first millennium AD. Combining macroscopic […]
Once again, the Kom el-Dikka site in Alexandria was a scene of an important discovery: a new mosaic was found by a team of Polish archaeologists. The site located in the heart of the ancient city has been excavated archaeologically since 1960 by the Polish Centre of Mediterranean Archaeology, University of Warsaw expedition in cooperation […]
We are happy to invite you to another PCMA Seminar, this time devoted to the presentation of a new direction in PCMA research – the Tigray region in Ethiopia.. A presentation entitled The PCMA in Tigray (Ethiopia): The Debre Gergis archaeological site and PCMA research perspectives will be given by Dr. Michela Gaudiello, the leader of […]
Team of ERC Starting Grant „UMMA – Urban Metamorphosis of the community of a Medieval African capital city” holds a workshop to summarize the results of the first fieldwork season. In the 2018–2019 season, PCMA UW mission spent four months at Old Dongola. The primary focus of their fieldwork was on localizing and investigating the […]
The monograph was published in the „Journal of Juristic Papyrology Supplement” series and is available in open access. Its aim is to present the material record of Nubian monasticism in a systematic manner and to conduct a comparative analysis of this phenomenon. This book also addresses several fundamental issues, e.g. the presence of various forms […]
The organizers of the “Poles in the Near East” archaeological conference have the pleasure of announcing a guest lecture accompanying the conference. Dr Francisco J. Núñez will present the results of over 20 years of excavations in Tyre, Lebanon. Dr Núñez specializes in the study of Levantine pottery from the Iron and late Bronze Age. […]
The Editors of Polish Archaeology in the Mediterranean are calling for papers for the 28th volume of the journal, which is to be published in 2019. It will include a thematic fascicle dedicatied to the subject of ancient lightning devices and related issues. The editors invite research articles on finds from a broadly understood Mediterranean […]