The PCMA UW and the IFAO have the pleasure to announce an international conference, entitled “Meeting the Other: Transfers and cultural interactions around the Nile Valley”. The event will be organized by the current PCMA-Ifao Post-Doc, Dr. Elena Panaite, who is calling for papers for the conference, scheduled to take place in Cairo in March […]
A seminar on the harbor town of Berenice on the Red Sea will be held at the PCMA UW and on-line. A series of presentations will highlight the results of the latest season of fieldwork that took place in the Winter of 2020. The participants will discuss their research on animal burials (see also: Roman […]
We are pleased to announce that Dr. Artur Obłuski has received his postdoctoral degree. The decision was taken unanimously by the Council of the Discipline of Archaeology of the University of Warsaw on September 23, 2020. Prof. Artur Obłuski is the director of the Polish Centre of Mediterranean Archaeology of the University of Warsaw. In […]
“Virtual Nubia” is a portal that allows you to walk into medieval monasteries in Sudan without leaving home. Archaeologists from the Polish Centre of Mediterranean Archaeology of the University of Warsaw (PCMA UW) have digitally reconstructed buildings that can now be visited on the computer screen. Polish scholars have extensive experience in research on medieval […]
Information about the discovery of monkeys imported from India and buried in the Egyptian port of Berenike aroused great media attention around the world, from the Spanish edition of National Geographic to the British The Sun. This discovery is the result of research by the American-Polish archaeological expedition under the auspices of the Polish Centre […]
The results were announced of two calls for positions related to the project MA-P Maloutena and Agora in the layout of Paphos: modelling the cityscape of the Hellenistic and Roman capital of Cyprus. Dr. Małgorzata Kajzer was accepted for the position of adjunct, while Paweł Lech, M.A., received a scholarship affiliated with the project. They […]
The Magna Scientia Antiquitatis. 100 years of archaeology at the University of Warsaw exhibition shows the scope of archaeological work conducted around the world by researchers from the University of Warsaw. It was officially opened on 2nd September 2020 during an open-air vernissage. The opening’s guests were welcomed by Prof. Alojzy Nowak, the Rector of […]
The Egyptian delegation was headed by H.E. Khaled El-Enany, Minister of Tourism and Antiquities. The Minister met with Prof. Alojzy Nowak, Rector of the University of Warsaw, Dr. Anna Budzanowska, Undersecretary of State in the Ministry of Science and Higher Education, the heads of the Polish Centre of Mediterranean Archaeology, University of Warsaw and of […]
At the latest meeting of the PCMA UW Scientific Council a new Director of the PCMA Research Centre in Cairo was appointed. In the upcoming term the position will be held by Assoc. Prof. Anna Wodzińska. Assoc. Prof. Anna Wodzińska’s scientific interests have been connected with Egypt for many years. She headed the Department of […]
On behalf of the archaeological expedition in Marea, we invite you to participate in the second edition of a conference on the archaeological research at this site. The archaeological site known as “Marea” is located on the Hawwariya Peninsula on the southern shore of Lake Mareotis, 45 km west of Alexandria. Since 2000, an archaeological […]
We are pleased to announce that a project funded with a newly-awarded National Science Center grant Sonatina 4 will be carried out at the PCMA UW. The research project, directed by Dr. Kamila W. Nocoń, is entitled “Production and consumption of kitchen ware from the Paphos Agora Project excavations in Cyprus in the middle and […]