Ten years of archaeological research by a joint mission from the Polish Centre of Mediterranean Archaeology (University of Warsaw) and the Archaeological Museum in Kraków will be represented at a photo exhibition “Ancient Marea – Polish excavations in Egypt 2000-2009”. The exhibition accompanies a conference on “The Fringes of Christianity”, to be held at the […]
21 October – unveiling of a bust of Professor Kazimierz Michałowski placed in the pantheon of great Egyptologists in the Egyptian Museum and the opening of an exhibition devoted to a presentation of the legacy of Polish archaeologists and conservators cooperating to save the Egyptian heritage from oblivion (exhibition at the Egyptian Museum through December […]
Exhibition mounted at the Royal Castle in Warsaw (Treasury Hall), from 28 June to 31 August 2012. The show presents the most important archaeological discoveries and the results of the comprehensive conservation effort made over the past fifty years by the team from the Polish Centre of Mediterranean Archaeology of the University of Warsaw. More […]
The exhibition Seventy years of Polish Archaeology in Egypt, presented at the Egyptian Museum in Cairo in the fall of 2007, has been prepared by the Polish Centre of Mediterranean Archaeology of the University of Warsaw in commemoration of 70 years that have passed since Polish archaeologists first started excavations in Edfu in Upper Egypt. […]
Anniversary celebration in Cairo Seventy years of Polish archaeological research in Egypt is hardly the kind of round anniversary that is ordinarily celebrated with jubilee events, but in this case it is closely connected with the commemoration of a man without whom there would be no such anniversaries to celebrate. It was Kazimierz Michałowski who […]
SCHOLAR AND ERUDITE Professor Kazimierz Michałowski, scholar and erudite, recognized researcher and founder of the Polish school of Mediterranean archaeology, died 25 years ago. The anniversary of his death falls practically seventy years to the day after he opened his first excavations in Tell Edfu in Upper Egypt. That first choice of archaeological site for […]