The Armenian-Polish Archaeological Mission Metsamor invites students willing to participate in this year’s excavations to an orientation meeting. The fieldwork is planned from late August to early October this year. The site of Metsamor is a settlement complex consisting of a fortress surrounded with Cyclopean walls, a lower city adjoining it from the north and […]
On behalf of the Marea Archaeological Project we invite you to the third conference on the results of archaeological research in this antique city. The archaeological site known as “Marea” is located on the Hawwariya Peninsula on the southern shore of Lake Mareotis, 45 km west of Alexandria. Polish archaeologists have been working there since […]
The upcoming PCMA Seminar will showcase the advances in research on ancient Nubian textiles undertaken recently, among others, at the PCMA UW. The event entitled “Textile archaeology in ancient Nubia. Methods and perspectives” will feature three separate presentations. Thanks to its arid climate, Nubia is the scene of many discoveries of well-preserved textile assemblages, recovered […]
A seminar by the Archaeo-Oriental Studies Research Group at the University of Warsaw will feature a lecture by Assoc. Prof. Arkadiusz Sołtysiak (Faculty of Archaeology UW) entitled: “New research perspectives in bioarchaeology: histology meets isotopes”. The lecture will be held in Polish, on 14th March 2022 at 11:30 am CET, on Zoom. Link to the […]
Over the last two weeks, as part of the National Geographic Society Exploration Grant funded project “The People of Ghazali: Tracing the Human Experience in a Nubian Desert Monastic Community (680–1275 CE)” Dr. Robert Stark conducted a series of public engagement events in Khartoum, Sudan. These public engagement events with students, Sudanese archaeologists, and community […]
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 […]
The Senate of the University of Warsaw expresses solidarity with Ukraine and their struggle against the overt aggression. Facing the Russian invasion on the Ukrainian territory, the Senate of the University of Warsaw expresses our solidarity with Ukrainian citizens, especially the Ukrainian students and colleagues who are part of the community of the University of […]
The Polish National Science Center awarded a Sonata Bis 11 grant to the project of Assist. Prof. Artur Obluski from the Polish Centre of Mediterranean Archaeology, University of Warsaw. The Sonata Bis projects are aimed at establishing a new research team. The project is entitled “Kyriakós oíkos? A diachronic conceptualization of space and function in […]
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 […]