In the series of PCMA Seminars we present the lecture of Dr. Vujadin Ivanišević from the Archaeological Institute of the Serbian Academy of Sciences and Arts in Belgrade titled “Caričin Grad (Justiniana Prima): The Landscape of an Early Byzantine City”. The seminar will be held online. Justiniana Prima is one of the few new urban […]
Presentations in the PCMA Seminar series continue this February with the talk: “The 2021 campaign of archaeological excavations on the Acropolis of Tyre. The Roman temple compound” presented by Dr. Francisco J. Núñez, one of the project’s co-directors. Abstract: “This seminar offers the preliminary results of the last campaign of archaeological excavations in the acropolis […]
In February, we return to our series of PCMA Seminar presentations. They will be held in remote form on three consecutive Thursdays this month. At the first of these, Dr. Kamila Nocoń presented her paper “Middle and Late Roman cooking pottery from the Agora in Nea Paphos. Preliminary findings”. Abstract: Middle and Late Roman period […]
We would like to invite students of the University of Warsaw to register for general university courses taught by the staff of PCMA UW. You will be able to learn about the topics they deal with in the practice of their research work. In the summer semester 2021/22 five courses will be taught, including one […]
Professor Timothy Insoll will present a lecture in the PCMA UW Research Centre in Cairo as part of the Kazimierz Michałowski Memorial Lecture Series. Prof. Insoll’s talk is entitled: “Cairo – an African Metropolis. Archaeological Perspectives on Contacts between Cairo and Eastern Ethiopia in the 12th to 15th Centuries”. Abstract: Archaeological material from recent excavations […]
The PCMA UW Research Centre in Cairo organised two lectures of PCMA scholarship-holders. Due to the COVID-19 pandemic, the events remain closed to the public. Mieszko Karnas, The Ptolemaic school textbook P. Cairo 65445 in the light of educational practices in the Graeco-Roman world. Cairo 65445 is a unique school textbook from the 3rd century […]
A guest lecture by Dr Elena Panaite, pursuing a PCMA-IFAO post-doctoral fellowship, was held at the PCMA UW Research Centre in Cairo. The lecture Tracing the foreign people in Ancient Egyptian society through textual sources accompanied the meeting of the series “Seminar of PCMA scholarship-holders”. Due to the epidemic situation, this event was also only […]
The PCMA UW Research Centre in Cairo organised another lecture of PCMA scholarship-holders. Due to the COVID-19 pandemic, the events remain closed to the public. Łukasz Suski, The Autopsy, the Nil and the Romans… And Cinderella (?) – Egypt Shown in the Seventeenth Strabo’s Geography Book: Abstract Strabo was an extraordinary thinker due to his […]
Presentations in the PCMA Seminar series will continue this November with Dr. Paweł Polkowski’s talk: “Dakhleh Oasis: The last 10 years of rock art research”. Dr. Paweł Polkowski of the Polish Centre of Mediterranean Archaeology, University of Warsaw (PCMA UW) and the Archaeological Museum in Poznań has led the Dakhleh Oasis Project Petroglyph Unit, working […]
We are sorry to have to cancel Dr. Piotr Makowski’s talk at the PCMA Seminar due to unforeseen personal circumstances. We hope to be able to organize it at a later date. Dr. Piotr Makowski’s lecture “Towards a better understanding of the chronological and geographical distribution patterns of plain and painted handmade wares in Bilād […]
The PCMA Seminar series hosted a talk by Dr. Robert Stark “Isotopes? What are they about”. It was an introductory presentation, aimed at PCMA UW staff, on the use of isotopes in bioarchaeological analyses. This presentation was intended to familiarize researchers with what isotope research entails and how this methodology can be integrated into archaeological […]
The PCMA UW Research Centre in Cairo organised another lecture of PCMA scholarship-holders. Due to the COVID-19 pandemic, the events remain closed to the public. Dr. Joanna Wilamowska talked about the ethnic composition of temple personnel in Ptolemaic Fayum: Abstract: “Priests occupied a privileged position in Ptolemaic Egypt. Research on this group significantly contributes to […]