The annual archaeological conference “Poles on the Nile” will be held on 21st–23rd June 2021. Due to the pandemic situation, last year’s edition had to be cancelled. For the same reasons, the organizers: the Department of Archaeology of Egypt and Nubia, Faculty of Archaeology of the University of Warsaw and the Polish Centre of Mediterranean Archaeology […]
Program of the interdisciplinary workshop “Funerary Textiles. Towards a better method for in situ study, retrieval and conservation” has now been announced. The event will take place on-line on 15th and 16th April 2021 and registration of participants is now open. Textiles have always played a prominent role in death. They were and continue to […]
The Institut français d’archéologie orientale and the Polish Centre of Mediterranean Archaeology, University of Warsaw are jointly organizing an international conference entitled: Meeting the Other: Transfers and cultural interactions around the Nile Valley. The conference will take place in Cairo, in a hybrid format from Saturday, 27th to Wednesday, 31th March 2021. The event has […]
In the 2nd circular of the “Poles in the Near East” archaeological conference (June 9-11, 2021) the organizers are still calling for papers to be submitted to the main sessions. We would also like to announce the subjects of the discussion panels. The deadline for submissions has been extended to May 10. Since its establishment […]
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 […]
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 […]
After a one-year break, we invite you yet again to take part in the archaeological conference Poles in the Near East. Its fifth edition is planned to take place online on 9–11 June, 2021. The conference is organized by the Polish Centre of Mediterranean Archaeology of the University of Warsaw and the Chair of the Archaeology […]
The PCMA UW and the IFAO have the pleasure to announce an international conference, entitled “Meeting the Other: Transfers and cultural interactions around the Nile Valley”. The event will be organized by the current PCMA-Ifao Post-Doc, Dr. Elena Panaite, who is calling for papers for the conference, scheduled to take place in Cairo in March […]
A seminar on the harbor town of Berenice on the Red Sea will be held at the PCMA UW and on-line. A series of presentations will highlight the results of the latest season of fieldwork that took place in the Winter of 2020. The participants will discuss their research on animal burials (see also: Roman […]
On behalf of the archaeological expedition in Marea, we invite you to participate in the second edition of a conference on the archaeological research at this site. The archaeological site known as “Marea” is located on the Hawwariya Peninsula on the southern shore of Lake Mareotis, 45 km west of Alexandria. Since 2000, an archaeological […]
PCMA Research Centre in Cairo and Institut français d’archéologie orientale (IFAO) co-organized an international conference “Stone canvas: towards a better integration of ‘rock art’ and ‘graffiti’ studies in Egypt and Sudan” . The conference finished on 12th of November at the IFAO. Twenty-nine talks, covering the subject of rock art and graffiti from various periods […]
The organizers of the “Stone Canvas” conference have the pleasure of announcing a keynote lecture accompanying the conference: “Stone Canvases, Rock Palettes, and the Minds of the Ancient Egyptians” by Prof. John C. Darnell (Yale University). Abstract: For over a quarter of a century, the work of the Theban Desert Road Survey and the Elkab […]