The sudden passing of Zbigniew Godziejewski, a conservator and long-term participant of PCMA UW fieldwork, is an irreparable loss for his friends and colleagues from the expeditions of which he was an indispensable part. Zbigniew Godziejewski worked with us for over 30 years, beginning in the early 1990s when he participated in excavations at Palmyra. […]
With deep sorrow we received the news of the death of Prof. Romuald Schild, an excellent archaeologist, long-time director of the Institute of Archaeology and Ethnology of the Polish Academy of Sciences. Professor Schild passed away on 23 November 2021. Professor Schild’s research on the prehistory of North-Eastern Africa is an enormous and invaluable contribution […]
We were saddened to learn of the death of Ryszard Sobolewski, an architect who worked at our Research Centre in Cairo and participated in many research projects in Africa and the Middle East. Ryszard Sobolewski worked as an architect at the Research Centre in Cairo in the first half of the 1970s. At that time, […]
We were saddened to learn of the death of Dr Anna Longa-Prager. As an archaeologist, she both excavated in Poland and cooperated with PCMA UW taking part in numerous seasons of fieldwork in Egypt and Sudan. She participated in excavations at Tell el-Farha, and in the works at the Temple of Hatshepsut in Deir el-Bahari, […]
Marta Mierzejewska (1984–2020)
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, […]
There must be a mosaic of memories of many different people to describe someone like Professor Zofia Sztetyłło—righteous, honest, deeply committed to her work, intelligent, and with an engaging way of not taking herself too seriously. Simply good. She was my Professor and that is how I remember her from my undergraduate years, writing my […]
I first met Zofia Sztetyłło in 1958, when I was a freshman and she a young assistant of our common mentor Kazimierz Michałowski. These were the years when the international career of Polish archaeology in the Mediterranean began for good. She joined the first after-war project of Michałowski, a dig on the Greek site of […]
This will not be a scientific biography – that appeared elsewhere – but rather a personal recollection of an extraordinary person whom I knew and esteemed, and whom I will keep in my memory forever. I met Professor Zofia Sztetyłło in Warsaw in 1984 before departure for my first excavation season in Paphos. Back then, […]
With sorrow and regret, we have received the news of the death of Zofia Sztetyłło, a professor of archeology and an outstanding scholar. Since the beginning of her career she was associated with the University of Warsaw and later with the Polish Centre of Mediterranean Archaeology UW, where she sat for several terms on the […]
We were grieved to receive the news of Małgorzata Redlak’s death. Małgosia was not only our friend. First of all, she was an extremely modest, warm, and cordial person, always kind and helpful. Her passion and the subject of many years of her research at Kom el-Dikka in Alexandria was Islamic pottery, to which she devoted […]