In the latest edition of the National Science Centre competitions, a project submitted by the Polish Centre of Mediterranean Archaeology of the University of Warsaw was selected for funding. Prof. Tomasz Derda (Faculty of Archaeology, University of Warsaw) received a grant for his project “«Marea»/Philoxenite on Lake Mareotis – A Late Antique Ideal City and Pilgrimage […]
The ceremony to present the UW Rector’s Teaching Awards and the Rector’s Distinctions was held on November 15, 2023. Among the employees of the Centre of Mediterranean Archaeology, University of Warsaw, Dr. Mariusz Drzewiecki and Dr. Mariusz Gwiazda received the Distinction. Dr. Mariusz Drzewiecki and Dr. Mariusz Gwiazda, employees of the Centre of Mediterranean Archaeology, […]
Dr. Francisco Núñez Calvo from the Polish Centre of Mediterranean Archaeology, University of Warsaw, has been awarded a grant from the Honor Frost Foundation. This grant will facilitate an investigation into the palaeoenvironment of Tyre, Lebanon, during the Bronze Age. The research project is closely linked to the collaborative efforts of a multidisciplinary team from […]
The National Science Centre of Poland has announced the fourth list of recepients of its Miniatura 7 grants. Dr. Patryk Chudzik from the Polish Centre of Mediterranean Archaeology, University of Warsaw is among those awarded. His project “Burial customs in ancient Egypt at the end of the Third millennium BCE. A case study of the […]
Dr. Marcin Kotyl from the Polish Centre of Mediterranean Archaeology, University of Warsaw, has been awarded a research fellowship from the Bekker NAWA Programme for a two-year postdoctoral fellowship at the University of Cologne. As part of the fellowship, Dr. Kotyl will work on his project “Musical instruments in Graeco-Roman Egypt: A papyrological and archeological […]
PCMA UW Research Centre in Cairo and Institut français d’archéologie orientale awarded their fifth joint Post-Doctoral Fellowship. The new Fellow will be Dr. Cristina Alù. As part of the scholarship, she will organize a conference “Place-making in the desertscape: the socialization of the Egyptian-Sudanese Eastern Desert landscape in the longue durée (4th millennium BCE–4th century […]
We are pleased to announce that Dr. Artur Obłuski, director of the Polish Centre of Mediterranean Archaeology UW, has been appointed associate professor by the University Senate’s resolution of June 29, 2023. Prof. Artur Obłuski, PhD, has been the director of the PCMA UW since 2020, having served as acting director for the previous two […]
Dr. Anastasiia Stupko-Lubczynska from the Polish Centre of Mediterranean Archaeology, University of Warsaw received the Antiquity Prize. She was recognized for her article on the organization of work of ancient Egyptian artists who carved the wall reliefs in the Chapel of Hatshepsut in Deir el-Bahari published in Antiquity in 2022. Antiquity, a Cambridge Core journal […]
Dr. Robert Mahler of the Polish Centre of Mediterranean Archaeology, University of Warsaw has been awarded a grant in the Sonata 18 competition. The National Science Center has assigned funding for his project “Muslim women in Fatimid Alexandria: Why did they die young? Biocultural factors in the change of living conditions for people buried at […]
An article by PCMA UW researchers has been published in Open Access thanks to a grant from the University of Warsaw program “Excellence Initiative – Research University” (IDUB). Agata Deptuła received the financing for an article in the “Journal of Social Archaeology” published by Sage. These grants are awarded for supporting publications in the open […]
Tomasz Barański from the Polish Centre of Mediterranean Archaeology, University of Warsaw has received a START scholarship from the Foundation for Polish Science. START is a one-year scholarship for outstanding young scholars at the beginning of their scientific careers who have a proven record of achievement in their field of research. Tomasz Barański is an […]
During the March session of the French Académie des Inscriptions et Belles-Lettres, Professor Michał Gawlikowski was elected as a foreign member of this distinguished scientific society. The Académie des Inscriptions et Belles-Lettres is a scientific society founded in 1663. Its members engage in historical, archaeological and linguistic research. It is one of five academic societies […]