Author Archives
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Beit Ras
Beit Ras Ancient name: Capitolias Most interesting finds: – city defense wall (2nd–8th? century AD) – winery (6th–7th century AD) – area of industrial activity (installations connected with the production of wine, pottery and glass objects, as well as cisterns: Byzantine and Umayyad periods) – architectural elements from the nearby church which had probably been […]
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Berenike
Berenike Berenike, Barnis (modern names) Berenike (Βερενίκη), Berenike Troglodytica (Greek name) Berenice (Latin name, used mostly in English in reference to the Roman city) Most interesting finds: – Hellenistic fortifications (fort and city defense walls) – Hellenistic underground structures (water cisterns, tunnel) – Several temples and a church – Offering of 8 kg of black […]
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Bijan
Bijan Bijan Bijan Island L’île de Bidjan Ancient names: Sapiratum(?) – source: the annals of Tiglath-Pileser I Izan(?) – source: Isidore of Charax Most interesting finds: – Assyrian fortress (two phases) as a link in the chain of frontier defenses along the Euphrates – Pottery vessel with a magical inscription in Aramaic from the early […]
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Chhîm
Qasr Chhîm Chehim Chhim Shheem Shhiim Szahim Szhim Most interesting finds: – Hellenistic sanctuary – Roman sanctuary from the 1st–3rd century AD – domestic architecture from the late Roman and Byzantine periods – four oil presses from the late Roman and Byzantine periods – Christian basilica with floor mosaics and wall paintings (AD 498) – […]
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Dakhleh Oasis
Dakhleh Oasis Dakhla Oasis Most interesting finds: – several hundred sites with petroglyphs discovered in the eastern and central parts of the Dakhleh Oasis – rediscovery of the so-called Winkler sites (first recorded in the 1930s), the location of which was forgotten after World War II – Neolithic anthropomorphic depictions, very attractive from the scientific […]
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Debre Gergis
Debre Gergis Däbrä Gärgəs ደብረ ገርግስ (Tigrigna name) Most interesting finds: – Stone pillars – A 6m-high stela History of research: Investigated by the PCMA mission in: 2020– Type of research: Excavations and survey Directors: Michela Gaudiello Co-operating institutions: – Polish Centre of Mediterranean Archaeology, University of Warsaw – Authority for Research and Conservation of […]
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Deir el-Bahari: North Asasif
North Asasif Most interesting finds: – ruins of a small chapel in the lower part of the courtyard of the mortuary complex of Horhotep (TT 314); the chapel’s furnishings were found in the fill – fragments of a decorated limestone sarcophagus of Cheti (tomb TT 311) – fragments of a coffin of Cheti with preserved […]
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Deir el-Bahari, Temple of Hatshepsut
Deir el-Bahari, Temple of Hatshepsut Most interesting finds: – platform above the third terrace which protected the temple from rocks falling from the cliff – statue of Amenhotep I – graves of members of royal families of the 22nd–25th dynasties (Third Intermediate Period) on the Upper Terrace – temple of Tuthmosis III History of research: […]
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Deir el-Bahari, Temple of Thutmosis III
Temple of Tuthmosis III in Deir el-Bahari History of research: Investigated by the PCMA mission in: 1962- Type of research: Excavations, studies, virtual and physical reconstruction Directors: – Kazimierz Michałowski, Jadwiga Lipińska, Leszek Dąbrowski (1962–1967) – Jadwiga Lipińska (1978–1996) – Monika Dolińska (2008- ) Co-operating institutions: – Polish Centre of Mediterranean Archaeology, University of Warsaw […]