Tyre, the Phoenician capital on the coast of Lebanon, is the site of the latest project with PCMA UW involvement. The international team researching this UNESCO World Heritage List city has just finished a highly successful fieldwork season discovering the remains of a Roman-period temple in a sacral complex. In 2020, the Polish Centre of […]
Traditional pottery workshops can be very informative for archaeologists working with pottery. This disappearing craft was documented as part of an archaeological expedition of the Polish Centre of Mediterranean Archaeology of the University of Warsaw working in Sudan. The footage is now available on the PCMA UW channel on You Tube. The “Pots Project” was […]
Archaeologists working in Old Dongola (Sudan) found the remains of what may be the largest church known from medieval Nubia. It could have been the seat of an archbishop governing the church hierarchy over a 1000 km-long stretch along the Nile, between the 1st and 5th cataracts. The archbishop of Dongola oversaw the bishop of […]
On October 15, in Nea Paphos, the 55th anniversary of Polish archaeological research at the site was celebrated with an official function. It was attended by representatives of the Cypriot authorities, the Embassy of the Republic of Poland in Cyprus, as well as a team of Polish archaeologists who have been working in Nea Paphos […]
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 […]
“Virtual Nubia” is a portal that allows you to walk into medieval monasteries in Sudan without leaving home. Archaeologists from the Polish Centre of Mediterranean Archaeology of the University of Warsaw (PCMA UW) have digitally reconstructed buildings that can now be visited on the computer screen. Polish scholars have extensive experience in research on medieval […]
Information about the discovery of monkeys imported from India and buried in the Egyptian port of Berenike aroused great media attention around the world, from the Spanish edition of National Geographic to the British The Sun. This discovery is the result of research by the American-Polish archaeological expedition under the auspices of the Polish Centre […]
A scientific consortium consisting of the Jagiellonian University in Krakow (UJ), the Polish Centre of Mediterranean Archeology of the University of Warsaw (PCMA UW) and the Warsaw University of Technology, headed by Prof. Ewdoksia Papuci-Władyka received a grant from the OPUS 18 program of the Polish National Science Center. The award-winning project is entitled MA-P […]
On Thursday, March 19, all members of the PCMA UW archaeological expedition to Ethiopia were pulled out. The decision to cut short the fieldwork season was dictated by the COVID-19 pandemic and the resultant travel restrictions, leading to a growing paralysis of air traffic. This year’s work in Ethiopia was the first season of excavation […]
On the night of 17/18 March, 38 people, PCMA UW staff, scholarship holders and employees of other institutions – members of Polish archaeological expeditions in Egypt, left Cairo in a plane provided by the #Lotdodomu campaign. The whole group reached the airport by rented coach. On Wednesday morning, they landed at Chopin Airport in Warsaw. […]
The first season of archaeological fieldwork in the medieval city of Soba near Khartoum came to a close mid-February, with very interesting results. A team of researchers from the Polish Centre of Mediterranean Archaeology, University of Warsaw (PCMA UW) and the Institute of Archaeology and Ethnology of the Polish Academy of the Sciences (IAE PAS) […]
At Old Dongola, Sudan, Polish specialists are supporting local communities to explore how heritage conservation may also be a development opportunity as part of partnership building between the scholarly community and local inhabitants. The capital city of the Kingdom of Makuria, excavated by Polish Centre of Mediterranean Archaeology, University of Warsaw (PCMA UW) teams for […]