The Polish Centre of Mediterranean Archaeology, University of Warsaw will host the 15th International Conference for Nubian Studies. The event will take place from August 29th to September 4th, 2022. Every four years the conference brings together archaeologists, epigraphists, historians, and other scholars working on the ancient and modern history of Sudan and Nubia, from […]
As part of the “PCMA Seminar” series, Iwona Zych will present the lecture “The burial landscape of Berenike on the Red Sea coast: 25 years of research”. The meeting will be held on Zoom. The lecture will present an overview of graves from the harbor of Berenike on the Red Sea coast of Egypt discovered […]
The PCMA UW Research Centre in Cairo organized another lecture for expedition members and scholarship holders residing in the Centre. DR. Patryk Chudzik presented on the subject of “The latest discoveries in the Middle Kingdom tombs of the North Asasif necropolis”. The North Asasif necropolis is located in the heart of Western Thebes, next to […]
The volume of essays compiled in 2011 on the occasion of Prof. Wiktor Andrzej Daszewski’s 75th birthday has now been made available on the PCMA UW website. The papers have been assigned DOI numbers and have been supplemented with abstracts. Prof. W.A. Daszewski died in January 2021. The jubilar volume Classica Orientalia. Essays Presented to […]
In 2020, the Polish Centre of Mediterranean Archaeology, University of Warsaw signed on with Peeters Publishers to produce a new book series. Polish Publications in Mediterranean Archaeology will showcase research spearheaded by the PCMA UW and conducted in association with its academic partners. Peeters Publishers has a long tradition of dedication to high-quality publications of […]
The PCMA UW Research Centre in Cairo operates despite the limitations resulting from the pandemic. Lectures and seminars are organized for the benefit of the expedition members and scholarship holders residing in the Centre. On Wednesday (3 February) Dr. Joan Oller Guzmán presented a lecture: “Emerald mining in Wadi Sikait: results of the 2021 season”. […]
The National Museum in Warsaw is about to launch the celebrations of the 60th anniversary of the discovery of the Faras Cathedral by Prof. Kazimierz Michałowski the founder of the Polish Centre of Mediterranean Archaeology of the University of Warsaw. PCMA UW is honored to be one of the partners of the event. The discovery […]
The Scientific Council for the Discipline of Archaeology at the University of Warsaw for the term of 2021-2024 will be headed by prof. dr hab. Tomasz Derda. The members of the Council will include: prof. dr hab. Aleksander Bursche dr hab. Adam Cieśliński prof. dr hab. Tomasz Derda prof. dr hab. Piotr Dyczek dr hab. […]
A new book by Dr Mariusz Drzewiecki of the PCMA UW is now available in the University of Warsaw Press bookstore. It is a popular science book in Polish on conducting an archaeological project in Sudan. The book presents the fascinating world of very diversified fortresses that were built over many centuries in the Upper […]
The fifth edition of the Sudan Studies conference will be held in Warsaw. This international scientific meeting is organized each year in a different country that conducts research in this part of Africa. The conference is organized by the University of Durham, and its Warsaw edition will be co-organized by the Polish Centre of Mediterranean […]
The passing of Professor Wiktor Andrzej Daszewski on January 17, 2021, marks a symbolic end of another stage in the history of Polish Mediterranean archaeology. A stage no longer of a pioneering kind, but building on the achievements of the Master and mentor, the founder of the discipline in Poland, Professor Kazimierz Michałowski. Daszewski rose […]
With sorrow, we have received the news about the death of Wiktor Andrzej Daszewski, professor of classical archaeology, a longtime employee of the University of Warsaw. Professor Wiktor Andrzej Daszewski began working at the Polish Centre of Mediterranean Archaeology of the University of Warsaw in Cairo in 1966, taking part in excavations in Tell Atrib, […]