Selib Most interesting finds: – St Menas church with decorated stone architectural elements – Medieval well – Meroitic settlement – Unique ceramic vessels used for Eucharist History of research: Dates of PCMA mission’s work: 2008-2020, survey conducted in 1998 (the research was continued without the participation of PCMA UW) Type of research: Archaeological excavations, conservation […]
Sheikh Abd el-Qurna Sheikh Abd el-Gurna el-Gurna Most interesting finds: – Coptic manuscripts (Canons of Pseudo-Basil, Life of St Pisenthius, fragment of Book of Isaiah, Acta Petri apocrypha) – Approximately 8,000 pottery vessels – More than 325 Coptic and Greek ostraca – Iron pan with a handle decorated with engraved depictions of animals and plants […]
Tell Amarna Most interesting finds: – Painted fragments of pottery vessels from the Halaf period – Ceramic vessels from the Bronze Age – Terracotta figurines from the Bronze and Iron Ages – Cylindrical seal from the Bronze Age – Oil lamps from the Hellenistic period – Remains of an early Christian church – Floor mosaics […]
Tell Arbid Tell Arbit Most interesting finds: – Temple of the Ninevite 5 period, one of the oldest buildings of this type in northern Mesopotamia – Two richly furnished women’s graves of the Mitanni period – Relics of domestic and official buildings from different periods – Khabur Ware period graves – Numerous examples of glyptics […]
Tell el-Farkha Tell el-Farcha Ghazala Most interesting finds: – Lower Egyptian culture settlement divided into functional quarters (residential, representative, and economic) – The oldest brewing center in Egypt (about 3700–3500 BC) – The so-called Naqadian residence – the largest predynastic residential building known from Egypt (about 3500–3350 BC, Western Kom) – Protodynastic settlement on the […]
Tell el-Murra Most interesting finds: – Discovery of Lower Egyptian culture remains and determining that the beginnings of the settlement at Tell el-Murra date to about 3500 BC – Discovery of remains attesting to a very high level of the flooding of the Nile, which probably destroyed a large part of the settlement at the […]
Tell el-Retaba Most interesting finds: – Hyksos settlement and cemetery (17th–16th century BC) – Early 18th dynasty settlement (16th–15th century BC) – Fortress of Ramesses II (13th–12th century BC) – defense walls, garrison barracks, workshops, granaries – Fortress of Ramesses III (12th–11th century BC) – defense walls, garrison barracks – Houses of the Third Intermediate […]
Tell Qaramel Most interesting finds: – A few dozen early Neolithic structures, including five towers and two proto-temples – More than 400 ornamental stone objects – A few dozen skeleton burials inside the settlement History of research: Dates of PCMA research: 1999–2011 Type of research: Excavations Project directors: Ryszard F. Mazurowski (1999–2021) Bassam Jammous (1999–2000 […]
Tomb of Ramesses VI (KV 9) History of research: Dates of PCMA mission’s work: 1996– Type of research: Epigraphic research and conservation works Directors: Adam Łukaszewicz Co-operating institutions: – Polish Centre of Mediterranean Archaeology, University of Warsaw – Egyptian Ministry of Antiquities Additional information: Foundation for Polish Science grant Exterius: “Funding for the research in […]