The next PCMA Seminar will feature a talk (rescheduled from the autumn) by Dr. Piotr Makowski, entitled “Towards a better understanding of the chronological and geographical distribution patterns of plain and painted handmade wares in Bilād al-Shām”. Abstract: “For nearly the entire span of the Islamic period plain and painted handmade wares were immutable components […]
Recording of Dr. Carol Meyer’s presenation “Bir Umm Fawakhir, a Byzantine period gold mining town in the Eastern Desert of Egypt” is now available on the PCMA UW YouTube channel. It was another PCMA Seminar delving into the subject of the exploitation of natural resources in the Eastern Desert in antiquity. This time, the topic […]
A seminar by the Archaeo-Oriental Studies Research Group at the University of Warsaw will host a presentation by Dr Marta Żuchowska (Faculty of Archaeology) and Dr Ewa Paśnik-Tułowiecka (Faculty of Oriental Studies) entitled: “Preliminary study on meditation caves of Upper Mustang”. Abstract: “The presentation was produced as part of a grant awarded by Archaeo-Oriental Study […]
Another PCMA Seminar will be hosting Dr. Carol Meyer. Her talk continues the thread of natural resource exploitation in the Eastern Desert in antiquity covered in previous seminars. This time it will take a closer look at the functioning of the Byzantine Bir Umm Fawakir settlement and the customs of its inhabitants. The site, surveyed […]
The Archaeo-Oriental Studies Research Group organizes a seminar on the subject of „Buddhist Caves in Nepal: Art and Architecture” which will be held online on 28th February, 2022. Four papers on the art and architecture of Nepal’s meditation caves from the perspectives of archaeology, history, and epigraphy will be presented at the seminar, which begins […]
The PCMA UW Research Centre in Cairo held a PCMA scholar’s seminar. Due to the pandemic, this event was still closed to the public. Grzegorz Michalec, MA, presented a talk on the subject: “Technological behaviours of the Acheulean complex in northeast Africa (Egypt and Sudan)”. Abstract: “This seminar presents the assumptions of the PhD project […]
The PCMA UW Research Centre in Cairo organized another PCMA scholar’s seminar. Due to the pandemic, the events still remain closed to the public. Fabian Amadeus Joakim Mydlak presented a talk titled “Preliminary research at the Post-Roman cemetery at Berenike”. Abstract: Post-Roman Berenike was a culturally diverse town ruled by the Blemmyes. Most of its […]
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 […]