On 23 October 2013 Dr. Mahmoud El-Tayeb successfully completed the habilitation process at the Faculty of History of the University of Warsaw, receiving the title of Assistant Professor and opening the way to full professorship. Dr. El-Tayeb is a permanent staff member of the Polish Center of Mediterranean Archaeology since 2008. His habilitation book, Funerary […]
Prince Eustachy Sapieha’s heirs have recently donated 28 volumes to the book collection of the PCMA Research Centre in Cairo. In a letter to its Director, Sapieha’s daughters wrote: “In fulfilment of our Late Father’s intentions, we are pleased to say that we have decided to offer as a gift part of his collection of […]
The exhibition Seventy years of Polish Archaeology in Egypt, presented at the Egyptian Museum in Cairo in the fall of 2007, has been prepared by the Polish Centre of Mediterranean Archaeology of the University of Warsaw in commemoration of 70 years that have passed since Polish archaeologists first started excavations in Edfu in Upper Egypt. […]
Anniversary celebration in Cairo Seventy years of Polish archaeological research in Egypt is hardly the kind of round anniversary that is ordinarily celebrated with jubilee events, but in this case it is closely connected with the commemoration of a man without whom there would be no such anniversaries to celebrate. It was Kazimierz Michałowski who […]