The research team of the ERC grant “UMMA: Urban Metamorphosis of the Community of a Medieval African Capital City” led by Prof. Artur Obłuski, is organizing workshops summarizing five years of research at the archaeological site in Old Dongola. Old Dongola is an important archaeological site, investigated by the team from the Polish Centre of […]
The organizers of an international conference “Place-making in the desertscape: the socialisation of the Egyptian-Sudanese Eastern Desert landscape in the longue durée (4th millennium BCE–4th century CE)” are calling for submissions of conference papers. The conference will take place in Cairo from 27th to 30th April 2024 at the Institut Français d’Archéologie Orientale and the […]
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 […]
This year, the annual “Poles on the Nile” conference on Polish archaeological research in Egypt and Sudan will feature a guest lecture by Maria Carmela Gatto of the Polish Academy of Sciences: “Recent research and discoveries in the First Nile Cataract region: A collaboration between the Aswan-Kom Ombo Archaeological Project AKAP and the BORDERSCAPE Project”. Abstract: […]
The website for the 26th International Congress of Roman Frontier Studies has been launched with a Call for Sessions for the event which will be held in 2024 in Batumi (Georgia). The Congress is co-organized by the University of Warsaw’s Polish Centre of Mediterranean Archaeology and Faculty of Archaeology together with the Cultural Heritage Protection […]
“Living in the house: researching the domestic life in ancient Egypt and Sudan” conference will take place from 27th till 30th November 2022. It will be held in hybrid form, in Cairo and online. The papers will focus on settlement archaeology in ancient Egypt and Sudan in its multi- and interdisciplinary aspects. The conference is organized […]
The University of Warsaw, together with the Cultural Heritage Preservation Agency of Ajara (Georgia), will organize Limes Congress 2024 in Batumi. The Limes Congress is the largest and most prestigious scientific event dedicated to research on the borders of the Roman Empire. It has more than 70 years of tradition and bringing together researchers from around […]
The 15th International Conference for Nubian Studies has come to an end. This scientific event, the largest in this field of research, is held every four years in one of the leading research centers. This year, at the University of Warsaw, it brought together more than 200 participants from nearly 20 countries. Nubia, the subject […]
The International Conference for Nubian Studies (ICNS) starts this Monday (29 August) at the University of Warsaw. Every four years the ICNS brings together archaeologists, epigraphists, historians, and other scholars working on the ancient and modern history of Sudan and Nubia. This year, the Polish Centre of Mediterranean Archaeology of the University of Warsaw (PCMA […]
The preliminary program has been announced of the conference “Living in the house: researching the domestic life in ancient Egypt and Sudan”. The conference is organized in Cairo by Dr. Fatma Keshk, the current Ifao-PCMA PostDoc fellow, on behalf of the Institut Français d’Archéologie Orientale and the Polish Centre of Mediterranean Archaeology, University of Warsaw, […]
The team of the project “UMMA – Urban Metamorphosis of the community of a Medieval African capital city” organized a workshop to present the results of the current research at the site in Old Dongola. The project, headed by Assist. Prof. Artur Obłuski, is funded by the European Research Council. It is attended by the […]
The annual conference on Polish archaeological research in Egypt and Sudan will be held on June 20th-22nd. Over the three days of the conference, 30 papers will be delivered, most of which will present latest research results The conference will be held in a hybrid mode, at the UW Department of Archaeology (room 2.12) and […]