The spring fieldwork season in Nea Paphos ended in mid-May. As of 2019, the expedition working there has been called “MA-P Malutena and Agora – Archaeological Project in Paphos, Cyprus. A joint expedition of Warsaw and Jagiellonian Universities.” Currently, in consortium with the Warsaw University of Technology, the expedition is carrying out a research project funded […]
The PCMA Seminar will host another lecture discussing the archaeology of the Eastern Desert and the Red Sea region. It will be presented by Dr. Maël Crépy from the Institut français d’archéologie orientale: “Gold, roads, water and forts in the Eastern Desert of Egypt.” The lecture series is organized by Dr. Mariusz Gwiazda. Abstract: “Created […]
Dr. Robert Mahler of the Polish Centre of Mediterranean Archaeology, University of Warsaw has been awarded a grant in the Sonata 18 competition. The National Science Center has assigned funding for his project “Muslim women in Fatimid Alexandria: Why did they die young? Biocultural factors in the change of living conditions for people buried at […]
This May, the PCMA Seminar hosts a speaker series focused on bioarchaeological perspectives on life in ancient Nubia. The series, which will be held online over three consecutive weeks, is organized and hosted by Dr. Robert Stark. The “Life in Ancient Nubia: Bioarchaeological Perspectives” speaker series presents a range of bioarchaeological perspectives on life in […]
An article by PCMA UW researchers has been published in Open Access thanks to a grant from the University of Warsaw program “Excellence Initiative – Research University” (IDUB). Agata Deptuła received the financing for an article in the “Journal of Social Archaeology” published by Sage. These grants are awarded for supporting publications in the open […]
Tomasz Barański from the Polish Centre of Mediterranean Archaeology, University of Warsaw has received a START scholarship from the Foundation for Polish Science. START is a one-year scholarship for outstanding young scholars at the beginning of their scientific careers who have a proven record of achievement in their field of research. Tomasz Barański is an […]
The PCMA UW team visited the European Center for Geological Education of the University of Warsaw in Chęciny. It was an opportunity for the team of several dozen people to get to know each other better and also to present their scientific backgrounds, research interests and projects to their colleagues. This will help the staff […]
Mahmoud El-Tayeb, along with his wife Ghalia and daughter Azzah, would like to express their gratitude through our website to all those who supported them during and after the outbreak of violence in Khartoum, as well as throughout their travel from Sudan. “We extend our heartfelt thanks to everyone who played a role in ensuring […]
We are relieved and happy to welcome back in Warsaw Dr. Mahmoud El-Tayeb, head of the PCMA UW Research Centre in Sudan, and his family. But we remain devastated by the news of the suffering and destruction inflicted by the military conflict on the people of Sudan. Dr. El-Tayeb and his family were evacuated from […]
We were saddened to learn of the death of Prof. Zsolt Kiss. As a graduate of Mediterranean archaeology at the University of Warsaw, he was a student of Prof. Kazimierz Michałowski. His scientific interests focused mainly on the iconography of the Greco-Roman period in Egypt. He pursued them during his many years of work at […]