The latest “PCMA Seminar” features a presentation by Dr. Tomomi Fushiya (PCMA UW) who will talk on the subject of “Participatory approach in practice”. Abstract: “Working with different communities is an important part of archaeological practice, especially when archaeologists work abroad. While it is certainly not new in archaeology, the development of collaborative archaeology in […]
The next seminar held at the PCMA UW Research Centre in Cairo will feature presentations of two research projects by PCMA scholarship holders. Olga Ignatowska: “The House of Gold in the Amon’s – History and its importance in the New Kingdom” Abstract: The House of Gold was an institution related to the temple, where statues, […]
Prof. John Lund will be the keynote speaker of this year’s “Poles in the Near East” conference. He will open the proceedings with the paper “Cypriots and Cypriot connectivity in the Hellenistic and Roman Periods: A diachronic perspective”. Prof. John Lund is the senior researcher and assistant keeper at the Collection of Classical and Near […]
Another seminar at the PCMA UW Research Centre in Cairo featured research by PCMA scholarship holder Paulina Karwowska. Her presentation was titled “Wall decoration of the First Intermediate Period and Middle Kingdom nobles’ tombs“. Abstract: There are over 100 known decorated tombs dated to the First Intermediate Period and the Middle Kingdom in Egypt. In […]
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 latest event will feature two presentations. Mikołaj Mielcarski will give a talk “Decorative usage of stone in the Cairo’s architecture until the end of the 18th […]
The upcoming “PCMA Seminar” will feature an online presentation by Dr. Joan Oller Guzmán from the Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona entitled “Rolling in the deep: last results of the survey and documentation of the emerald mines in Wadi Sikait”. This project has been carried out in cooperation with the Polish Centre of Mediterranean Archaeology, University […]
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 […]