An agreement for archaeological cooperation has been signed between the National Council of Culture Arts and Letters of the State of Kuwait and the Polish Centre of Mediterranean Archaeology, University of Warsaw. For the next five years the Kuwaiti–Polish Archaeological Mission will work on several projects in Northern Kuwait and Failaka Island. The Kuwaiti–Polish Archaeological […]
The launch of a new vistors’ route at the site of PCMA excavations in Alexandria drew over a hundred onlookers. The ribbon-cutting ceremony was performed by the Egyptian Minister of Antiquities Dr. Khaled El-Anany, the Governor of Alexandria, Mr. Muhammad Sultan, and Rector of the University of Warsaw, Prof. Marcin Pałys. As the director of […]
The event was co-organized by the National Council for Culture Arts and Letters of the State of Kuwait, Polish Embassy in Kuwait and the Polish Centre of Mediterranean Archaeology, University of Warsaw. During the opening of the exhibition Prof. Piotr Bieliński, the head of Polish excavations in Kuwait and H.E. Ali H. Youha, Secretary-General of […]
Archaeologists from the University of Warsaw have been invited, on the occasion of the 20th anniversary of their research in Lebanon, to share the results of their work in word and image. An exhibition in the French Institute in Beirut (IFPO), to open on 20 September 2016, will highlight some aspects of the research conducted […]
After an initial reconnaissance in early April 2016, conservators and archaeologists from the Polish Centre of Mediterranean Archaeology, University of Warsaw returned to Palmyra in May to resume work on the rescue conservation of objects in the Palmyra Museum. The work was undertaken by conservators Bartosz Markowski, and Krzysztof Jurków and archaeologists, Tomasz Waliszewski, PCMA […]
Organizing the exhibition “Endangered Heritage. Syria and Iraq in the research of the Polish Centre of Mediterranean Archaeology” we expected to be telling the story of our excavation and conservation projects suspended in 2011 with the advent of the Syrian civil war. The takeover of Palmyra from the Daesh by government forces a few days […]
We are happy to inform that yet another research grant proposal submitted by the Polish Centre of Mediterranean Archaeology University of Warsaw has received funding from the National Science Centre. Preludium 9 – Marek Woźniak (MA): „From military base to international emporium: the nature and functioning of the Hellenistic port of Berenike on the Red […]
Polish archaeological mission finished its first archaeological reconnaissance in north-western Oman. It was an introduction to a four-year long Omani–Polish research project in the micro-region of Qumayrah. The project is a cooperation between the Department of Excavations and Archaeological Studies, Ministry of Heritage and Culture, Sultanate of Oman and the Polish Centre of Mediterranean Archaeology, […]
A mosaic floor decorated with geometric motifs was discovered after just three weeks of work by a joint expedition from the University of Warsaw (Polish Centre of Mediterranean Archaeology and the Institute of Archaeology) at the Roman fort of Apsaros in modern Gonio. The mosaic floor covered a large room (roughly 100 m2) in a […]
The conference “Poles in Lebanon” is organized by the Polish Centre of Mediterranean Archaeology, University of Warsaw, in cooperation with the Institute of Archaeology, University of Warsaw. Papers presented at the conference will include reports on the results of the latest season of fieldwork of Polish archaeological and conservation missions in Lebanon. Ongoing projects will […]
The Polish Centre of Mediterranean Archaeology, University of Warsaw, launched a research program in Beit Ras in Jordan, the site of the ancient city of Captiolias. The archaeological mission, is a cooperation between the PCMA and the Department of Antiquities of the Hashemite Kingdom of Jordan. The Polish side of the project is directed by […]
An agreement signed at the end of October in Riyadh launched the first Saudi-Polish archaeological project: excavations at the site of Aynuna at the Red Sea coast of the Tabuk province in Saudi Arabia. The agreement between the Saudi Commission for Tourism and Antiquities (SCTA), represented by Dr Hussein Abu Al Hassan, and the Polish […]