Beginning this October fellows of the second UNESCO/Poland Co-Sponsored Fellowships Programme in Archaeology and Conservation begin their training in Poland. Polish Centre of Mediterranean Archaeology (PCMA), University of Warsaw is a partner in the programme. The programme, co-organized by UNESCO, the Polish National Commission for UNESCO, the Polish Ministry of Science and Higher Education, is […]
The PCMA Research Centre in Cairo and Institut français d’archéologie orientale (IFAO) are co-organizing the second scientific meeting on archaeobotanical research in Egypt. The meeting will gather archaeobotanists and specialists in similar disciplines who work in Egypt. They will convene in the PCMA Research Centre in Cairo on 26th September 2018. The program includes presentations […]
In the 12th edition of competition “Wierzba (Willow) – Mazovian Museum Events” organized by the Mazowieckie Voivodship Marshal’s Office in cooperation with the Mazovian Branch of the Polish Museologists Association the exhibition was awarded the first prize for the most interesting exhibition in a large museum. The exhibition “The vizier’s house of eternity. The tomb […]
As of 1st August 2018 Dr Artur Obłuski is the acting director of the Polish Centre of Mediterranean Archaeology. He will be charged with this function for a year, while Ptof. Tomasz Waliszewski is on leave. Dr Obłuski is a Nubiologist actively involved with the PCMA for over a decade. Since 2015 he is the […]
An international workshop on the pottery from the Bayuda desert in Sudan will take place in Gdańsk this July. The event is organized by the Gdańsk Archaeological Museum, the Heritage Protection Fund and the PCMA Polish Archaeological Unit in Khartoum. The three-day workshop will focus on presentations of actual ceramic materials and discussions of their chronology, […]
In July and August our office building in Warsaw is undergoing renovation, so some of our departments can be temporarily inaccessible. Due to the construction work at Nowy Świat 4 our departments will need to vacate their premises at different times. The Documentation Archiving Department (room 107) and the Reading Room (211) are out of […]
The PCMA welcomes new staff members – the team of dr Artur Obłuski’s ERC grant „UMMA – Urban Metamorphosis of the community of a Medieval African capital city”. The team began work this June with a series of workshops focused on developing a documentation system for the new project. The project’s site recording system will […]
Fellows of the “UNESCO/ Poland Co-Sponsored Fellowships Programme in Archaeology and Conservation” received diplomas at the end of their programme. The diplomas were presented by representatives of the four institutions involved in the project: Małgorzata Herbich, from the Polish National Commission for UNESCO, Prof. Krzysztof Chmielewski from the Department of Conservation and Restoration of Works […]
Scholars working on Sudanese pottery will gather in Warsaw for a workshop organized within the frame of the Levantine Ceramics Project (LCP). It is scheduled to take place on 22nd and 23rd of May, 2018 and is co-hosted by the Polish Centre of Mediterranean Archaeology, University of Warsaw and the Institute of Mediterranean and Oriental […]
The annual conference „Poles on the Nile”, will be held at the University of Warsaw on 11–13 June 2018. As usual, it will be co-organized by the Department of the Archaeology of Egypt and Nubia (Institute of Archaeology, University of Warsaw) and the Polish Centre of Mediterranean Archaeology, University of Warsaw. Regist Most of the […]
For the third time we would like to invite scholars involved in Polish archaeological and related projects in the Near East to take part in the annual conference “Poles in the Near East”. This year’s edition will take place on 8th and 9th of June. The event is co-organized by the Polish Centre of Mediterranean […]
The Polish Centre of Mediterranean Archaeology Research Centre in Cairo (PCMA-RC) and Institut français d’archéologie orientale (IFAO) are organising the second annual meeting of archaeobotanists working in Egypt, scheduled to take place on Wednesday, 26 and Thursday, 27 September 2018. Archaeobotanists and specialists in related disciplines are invited to present their ongoing research. For the […]