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 […]
We are happy to announce that our annual Polish Archaeology in the Mediterranean shot up in the ranking of the Polish Ministry of Science and Higher Education to 12 points from the earlier 7. PAM was first evaluated by the Ministry in 2012, with a rating of 4 points. In the past three years we […]
The Director of the PCMA, Prof. Tomasz Waliszewski has been awarded the Clio prize of the first degree for his book Elaion. Olive Oil Production in Roman and Byzantine Syria–Palestine. The prize is awarded by the Rector of the University of Warsaw for the best publications of scholars from the university’s Faculty of History. The […]
The Editors of the annual Polish Archaeology in the Mediterranean (PAM) are calling for papers for the 25th volume, which is scheduled to appear by the end of 2016. The journal is published by the Polish Centre of Mediterranean Archaeology, University of Warsaw in cooperation with the University of Warsaw Press. The volume will consist […]
The journal Polish Archaeology in the Mediterranean, published by the Polish Centre of Mediterranean Archaeology, University of Warsaw, has provided a forum for presenting the results of extensive work by teams of Polish archaeologists and related specialists, associated with the PCMA and with various other research institutions in Poland and abroad. For the past quarter […]
Our latest book, a monograph by Assoc. Prof. Tomasz Waliszewski on oleoculture in the Roman and Byzantine Syria–Palestine, is accompanied by an online database of over 1700 oil-press related elements, which lay at the basis of the conclusions presented in the book. Oleoculture was always an important part of ancient agriculture, which was the mainstay […]
PAM Special Studies is a separate fascicle of our journal Polish Archaeology in the Mediterranean which will bring together articles devoted to a particular subject. The introductory issue is Beyond Ornamentation. Jewelry as an Aspect of Material Culture in the Ancient Near East, edited by Zuzanna Wygnańska and Amir Golani. Personal adornments, modern and ancient, […]
A new PCMA publication is available now: Studia Palmyreńskie 13. With this issue, the journal has been converted into a series which is inaugurated by a monograph presenting a catalog of coins discovered in the course of Polish excavations in Palmyra conducted by the Polish Centre of Mediterranean Archaeology, University of Warsaw in 1959–2001. The […]