Qumayrah Valley Qumayrah–Ayn Wadi al-Fajj Ayn Bani Saida, Ayn Bani Saydah Bilt, Belt History of research: Dates of PCMA mission’s work: 2015– Type of research: Survey, excavations Directors: Project director: Piotr Bieliński, Polish Centre of Mediterranean Archaeology, University of Warsaw Sub-projects directors: – Iron Age settlement – Agnieszka Pieńkowska, PCMA UW – Bronze Age settlement […]
Sijilmassa Sijilmasa, Sid̲j̲ilmāsa, Historical name: Sijilmassa Arabic name: سجلماسة Berber name: ⵙⵉⵊⵉⵍⵎⴰⵙⴰ Most interesting features: – massive walls made of packed earth – Alaouite-period mosque and Quranic school – Alaouite-period settlement History of research: Dates of PCMA expedition’s work: 2024– Type of research: excavations, survey Directors: Lahcen Taouchikht (Institut Nationale des Sciences de l’Archéologie et […]
Tyre Most interesting finds: In al-Bass: – cremation tombs belonging to the citizens of the Iron Age city of Tyre In the Acropolis: – urban remains from the time of the city’s foundation in the 3rd millennium BCE to the 20th century CE – Early and Late Bronze Age and Iron Age buildings – a […]
Zegota, Volubilis region Most interesting finds: Denarius of Juba II and Cleopatra Selene, (kings of Mauritania); Trajan’s denarius; Hadrian’s as; An iron pilum spearhead; Several iron nails from military sandals; Fragments of Corbridge-type banded armour (lorica segmentata); Ceramics of the sigillata hispanica type; Architectural relics that are the remains of two phases of a Roman outpost on […]