This week’s seminar at the PCMA UW Research Centre in Cairo will feature research by PCMA scholarship holder Urszula Laska. Her presentation is entitled “In the footsteps of Hadrian. A short journey through the Roman Empire“. Abstract: Hadrian took over the Roman Empire at the time of its greatest territorial extent and flourishing economic situation. […]
The latest seminar at the PCMA UW Research Centre in Cairo will feature research by PCMA scholarship holder Joanna Ciesielska. She will present on the subject of “Preliminary investigation of population diversity in the capital of the medieval kingdom of Alwa“. Abstract: In the sixth century CE Nubia, approximately the territory of modern Sudan, was […]
Another seminar at the PCMA UW Research Centre in Cairo will present the project of PCMA scholarship holder Alicja Jurgielewicz. Her talk is entitled “Fish and fishing at the end of the Islamic period in Egypt. Preparation, preservation and trade“. Abstract: Fish and fishing have been an important sector of Egypt’s economy since Antiquity. Changes […]
The latest in the “PCMA Seminar” series will be an online presentation of the newly resumed research project at Naqlun in Egypt. The seminar, entitled “Naqlun. Old issues, new directions” will be hosted by Dr. Robert Mahler (PCMA UW, expedition director), with Magdalena Skarżyńska (PCMA UW, conservator) and Joanna Wysocka (PhD student at the Institute […]
The PCMA UW Research Centre in Cairo holds another seminar for the presentation of projects of the holders of PCMA scholarship (Stypendium CAŚ). The forthcoming presentation by Zuzanna Augustyniak is “Being good at being man – construction of manhood and the institution of yilunta“. Abstract: Yilunta is one of the cultural mechanisms of social control […]
The Institut français d’archéologie orientale and the Polish Centre of Mediterranean Archaeology, University of Warsaw are jointly organizing an international conference entitled: Meeting the Other: Transfers and cultural interactions around the Nile Valley. The conference will take place in Cairo, in a hybrid format from Saturday, 27th to Wednesday, 31th March 2021. The event has […]
The PCMA UW Research Centre in Cairo continues the series of seminars during which the holders of PCMA scholarships (Stypendium CAŚ) can present the results of their research. The forthcoming one will feature two presentations. Urszula Laska will give a talk “Traditions of Egyptian Funeral Art in Roman Egypt. Introduction to the research”, and Mieszko […]
The PCMA UW Research Centre in Cairo keeps up the tradition of seminars during which the holders of PCMA scholarships (Stypendium CAŚ) can present the results of their research. The latest in the series will be a presentation by Alicja Jurgielewicz on the subject: “The Gebelein textile – reconstruction and interpretation”. Abstract: “The Gebelein textile […]
As part of the “PCMA Seminar” series, Iwona Zych will present the lecture “The burial landscape of Berenike on the Red Sea coast: 25 years of research”. The meeting will be held on Zoom. The lecture will present an overview of graves from the harbor of Berenike on the Red Sea coast of Egypt discovered […]
The PCMA UW Research Centre in Cairo organized another lecture for expedition members and scholarship holders residing in the Centre. DR. Patryk Chudzik presented on the subject of “The latest discoveries in the Middle Kingdom tombs of the North Asasif necropolis”. The North Asasif necropolis is located in the heart of Western Thebes, next to […]
The PCMA UW Research Centre in Cairo operates despite the limitations resulting from the pandemic. Lectures and seminars are organized for the benefit of the expedition members and scholarship holders residing in the Centre. On Wednesday (3 February) Dr. Joan Oller Guzmán presented a lecture: “Emerald mining in Wadi Sikait: results of the 2021 season”. […]
Students of the Faculty of Archeology of the University of Warsaw have an opportunity to extend their knowledge on the history and archaeology of the Levant in the Iron Age and the Phoenician expansion to the western part of the Mediterranean. These are the themes of courses prepared by Dr. Francisco J. Núñez from the […]