Beginning this October, a new thematic series will feature as part of the PCMA UW seminar: “Pot Talks – A Multidisciplinary Approach to Ceramics from Africa and Beyond”. The series is organized by Dr. Katarzyna de Lellis-Danys from the PCMA UW Department of African Studies and the National Museum in Warsaw. The lecture series will […]
The PCMA UW Research Centre in Cairo invites to a lecture by Dr. Fatma Keshk, the 2022/23 PCMA-Ifao Fellowship holder. The talk, wihich will be held in hybrid form, is entitled: “Egyptian Houses through the lens of ethnography”. Dr. Keshk, who is based in Cairo, is a graduate of Leiden University, with a PhD from […]
Dr. Francisco Núñez Calvo from the Polish Centre of Mediterranean Archaeology, University of Warsaw, has been awarded a grant from the Honor Frost Foundation. This grant will facilitate an investigation into the palaeoenvironment of Tyre, Lebanon, during the Bronze Age. The research project is closely linked to the collaborative efforts of a multidisciplinary team from […]
The National Science Centre of Poland has announced the fourth list of recepients of its Miniatura 7 grants. Dr. Patryk Chudzik from the Polish Centre of Mediterranean Archaeology, University of Warsaw is among those awarded. His project “Burial customs in ancient Egypt at the end of the Third millennium BCE. A case study of the […]
The Polish Centre of Mediterranean Archaeology, University of Warsaw is moving to a new office in the same building. The relocation began on 16th of August and will last about a week. The PCMA UW remains in the office building by the Daszyński Roundabout (69 Prosta St). The new office is located on floor 6A. […]
Dr. Marcin Kotyl from the Polish Centre of Mediterranean Archaeology, University of Warsaw, has been awarded a research fellowship from the Bekker NAWA Programme for a two-year postdoctoral fellowship at the University of Cologne. As part of the fellowship, Dr. Kotyl will work on his project “Musical instruments in Graeco-Roman Egypt: A papyrological and archeological […]
We are pleased to announce that Dr. Artur Obłuski, director of the Polish Centre of Mediterranean Archaeology UW, has been appointed associate professor by the University Senate’s resolution of June 29, 2023. Prof. Artur Obłuski, PhD, has been the director of the PCMA UW since 2020, having served as acting director for the previous two […]
With sadness, we received the news of the passing of Beata Madaj, a long-time employee of the Polish Centre of Mediterranean Archaeology, University of Warsaw. She had been working at the University of Warsaw for three decades. In 2001, she transferred to the PCMA administration from the University of Warsaw Bursary. At the PCMA, she […]
Dr. Anastasiia Stupko-Lubczynska from the Polish Centre of Mediterranean Archaeology, University of Warsaw received the Antiquity Prize. She was recognized for her article on the organization of work of ancient Egyptian artists who carved the wall reliefs in the Chapel of Hatshepsut in Deir el-Bahari published in Antiquity in 2022. Antiquity, a Cambridge Core journal […]
The annual “Poles on the Nile” conference on Polish archaeological research in Egypt and Sudan will be held on 21st–23rd June 2023 in hybrid mode. For the first time, all conference papers will be presented in English. The event is co-organized by the Department of Egyptian and Nubian Archaeology, Faculty of Archaeology and the Department […]