Polish Archaeology in the Mediterranean editors are extending the deadline for paper submissions for the 28th volume of the journal until 31 August. On the latest list of scientific journals published by the Polish Ministry of Science and Higher Education, articles in the PAM journal received 70 points. The thematic fascicle of the issue will […]
Book Dongola 2015–2016. Fieldwork, Conservation and Site Management is now available online. It has been published in PCMA Excavation Series, which also features a volume of reports from earlier seasons of work at the site. The royal city of Old Dongola was the political and economic center of Makuria, a medieval Christian kingdom in Nubia. The Polish Centre […]
We present the tenth publication in the PCMA Monograph Series: Glass bead trade in Northeast Africa. The evidence from Meroitic and post-Meroitic Nubia. The volume is authored by Dr Joanna Then-Obłuska. Strings of colorful glass beads were a popular commodity traded throughout ancient Nubia in the earlier half of the first millennium AD. Combining macroscopic […]
The monograph was published in the „Journal of Juristic Papyrology Supplement” series and is available in open access. Its aim is to present the material record of Nubian monasticism in a systematic manner and to conduct a comparative analysis of this phenomenon. This book also addresses several fundamental issues, e.g. the presence of various forms […]
The Editors of Polish Archaeology in the Mediterranean are calling for papers for the 28th volume of the journal, which is to be published in 2019. It will include a thematic fascicle dedicatied to the subject of ancient lightning devices and related issues. The editors invite research articles on finds from a broadly understood Mediterranean […]
All recent articles in our annual journal Polish Archaeology in the Mediterranean have been given DOI numbers. This is good news both for our authors and for our readers. The DOI numbers are unique digial object identifiers, which enable locating sources of electronic versions of pubications (see https://www.doi.org/ ). The DOI numbers have been attached […]
We would like to announce a call for papers for the current volume 27 of the journal Polish Archaeology in the Mediterranean, with a publishing date 2018. We invite three categories of papers: • research articles drawing upon the finds from Polish excavations and related to these, from the area of a broadly understood Mediterranean […]
Stefan Jakobielski, epighrapher and archaeologist, one of the pioneers of Nubiology, celebrates his 80th birthday this year. At the beginning of his career in the 1960s, he participated in the discovery of the cathedral in Faras and in removing its wall paintings to Khartoum and Warsaw during the UNESCO effort to save the monuments of […]
The PCMA Research Centre in Cairo invites members of archaeological missions, scholarship holders and guests of the Centre to use its’ book collection. Electronic catalogs of books and magazines are available at the PCMA website and on the computer at the Krystyna Polaczek Reading Room. Prior to the first visit, please contact Marianna Chlebowska (cairo2.pcma@uw.edu.pl).
We are happy to announce our brand new publication: Porphyreon. Hellenistic and Roman Pottery Production in the Sidon Hinterland. This book, by Dr. Urszula Wicenciak, is the 7th volume in our PAM Monograph Series. The pottery workshop in the town of Porphyreon on the Phoenician coast (modern Jiyeh in Lebanon), was probed during a rescue […]
We are accepting submissions for the next issue of Polish Archaeology in the Mediterranean, volume 25, a separate Special Studies volume dedicated to the Red Sea and the Gulf, which is to be published in time for the Red Sea 8 conference next year in Warsaw (publishing date 2016). The volume will also carry papers […]
The last day of the conference “Poles on the Nile”, being the “Kingdom of Makuria Day”, ended in celebrations of a distinguished scholar in this field, Professor Włodzimierz Godlewski. The volume, Aegyptus et Nubia Christiana. The Włodzimierz Godlewski Jubilee Volume on the Occasion of his 70th Birthday presents over 35 articles on topics related to […]