The third Post-Doctoral Fellowship, offered by the PCMA Research Centre in Cairo and Institut français d’archéologie orientale, has been awarded to Dr. Elena Panaite. As was the case with the previous editions, the Post-Doc Fellow will be tasked with organizing a scientific conference in Cairo. The title of next year’s conference is Meeting the “Other”: […]
We are pleased to announce that Dr. Grzegorz Majcherek, a longtime employee of the Polish Centre of Mediterranean Archaeology, University of Warsaw, has been awarded a habilitation degree. This decision was taken unanimously by the Council of the Discipline of Archaeology at the University of Warsaw on June 18, 2020. Dr hab. Grzegorz Majcherek is […]
As part of the Ghazali project in Sudan, directed by Dr. Artur Obłuski from the Polish Centre of Mediterranean Archaeology, University of Warsaw, Dr. Robert Stark, and colleagues from the University of Warsaw, the David Reich Lab at Harvard University, and the National Corporation for Antiquities and Museums of Sudan (NCAM) were awarded a one-year […]
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 […]
A farewell party for dr. Zbigniew E. Szafrański was held at the end of the latest season of the Polish-Egyptian Archaeological and Conservation Mission at the Temple of Hatshepsut at Deir el-Bahari. Guests gathered in the “Polish House” (also called the Metropolitan House), where the mission’s members have been living for nearly 60 years during […]
We are pleased to announce that Prof. Michał Gawlikowski has received the prestigious Prof. Jan Zachwatowicz Award for his achievements in the research and conservation of heritage sites. The award is presented by the Polish Committee of the International Council on Monuments and Sites (ICOMOS) and the General Monument Conservator. Prof. Michał Gawlikowski has been […]
For the second time the PCMA Research Centre in Cairo and Institut français d’archéologie orientale have offered a joint post-doctoral fellowship. It has been awarded to Dr. Paweł Polkowski of the Archaeological Museum in Poznań. His scholarly interests center around the rock art of North Africa, with a focus on the eastern Sahara region. For […]
The Polish Centre of Mediterranean Archaeology, University of Warsaw, received almost 2 mln PLN from the Ministry of Science and Higher Education as a DIALOG grant for its program “ArcheoCDN. Archeologiczne Centrum Doskonałości Naukowej / Archaeological Centre of Scientific Excellence” With the funding from this grant (DIALOG 0298/2018), the PCMA can continue shaping up as […]
The Polish Centre of Mediterranean Archaeology can host a Dioscuri Centre of Scientific Excellence. Only three institutions from Poland qualified in “The study of the human past” discipline, with just eight selected in the field of humanities as a whole. Dioscuri is a program devised by the Max Planck Society to encourage the development […]
Beginning this October fellows of the second UNESCO/Poland Co-Sponsored Fellowships Programme in Archaeology and Conservation begin their training in Poland. Polish Centre of Mediterranean Archaeology (PCMA), University of Warsaw is a partner in the programme. The programme, co-organized by UNESCO, the Polish National Commission for UNESCO, the Polish Ministry of Science and Higher Education, is […]
In the 12th edition of competition “Wierzba (Willow) – Mazovian Museum Events” organized by the Mazowieckie Voivodship Marshal’s Office in cooperation with the Mazovian Branch of the Polish Museologists Association the exhibition was awarded the first prize for the most interesting exhibition in a large museum. The exhibition “The vizier’s house of eternity. The tomb […]
As of 1st August 2018 Dr Artur Obłuski is the acting director of the Polish Centre of Mediterranean Archaeology. He will be charged with this function for a year, while Ptof. Tomasz Waliszewski is on leave. Dr Obłuski is a Nubiologist actively involved with the PCMA for over a decade. Since 2015 he is the […]