The Director of the Polish Centre of Mediterranean Archaeology, University of Warsaw, with the consent of the Rector of the University of Warsaw, announces a competition for the Assistant and PostDoc positions in the ERC project: “PeriPolis – A provincial capital polis at the end of the Roman era. Periphery or a center of power?”. Assistant position: PDFAssistant Professor […]
The first PCMA Seminar in the “Local Traditions, Shared Faith: Early Christianity in Comparative Perspective” series will feature Prof. Gabriele Castiglia (Pontificio Istituto di Archeologia Cristiana, Roma) with a presentation: “Basalt, Alabaster, Coral: Building Sacred Space in Early Christian Adulis”. Abstract: The excavations at Adulis (Eritrea), carried out by the Pontificio Istituto di Archeologia Cristiana between […]
The detailed program for the upcoming international conference “International Congress on Black Sea Antiquities” is now available. The event will take place at the University of Warsaw from 14 to 18 September 2026. This edition of the Congress is dedicated to the memory of Gocha R. Tsetskhladze, a renowned scholar and one of the series’ founders. […]
On Friday, 17 April 2026, the Research Centre in Cyprus, Polish Centre of Mediterranean Archaeology, University of Warsaw, hosted representatives of the American University of Beirut – Mediterraneo. The visit to the Nea Paphos Archaeological Park provided an opportunity to present the achievements of Polish archaeological research and to further develop institutional cooperation. The meeting […]
The Research Centre in Cyprus of the Polish Centre of Mediterranean Archaeology, University of Warsaw, and the Polish Archaeological Institute at Athens, presents the book launch of Beata Kukiel-Vraila’s “Archaeology Without Makeup: Conversations”, dedicated to outstanding women scholars associated with the Polish Archaeological Institute at Athens. The author – Secretary General and Cultural Coordinator of PAIA, […]
The upcoming PCMA seminar will feature Dr. Jerzy M. Oleksiak (Polish Centre of Mediterranean Archaeology, University of Warsaw) with a presentation: “We are halfway there!” – Reconstructing underground pottery use of Roman emerald miners in Sikait (Eastern Desert, Egypt). Abstract: This study presents the first-ever analysis of a unique pottery assemblage discovered in the emerald […]
The international conference “Perceptions of health in the Nile Valley: The social and cultural dimension of healing practice in the Egyptian context from Antiquity to the Middle Ages (4th Millennium BCE – 15th Century CE)” took place on 8–9 April 2026 in Cairo, at the premises of the PCMA UW Research Centre in Cairo and […]
The new PCMA Research Centre in Cyprus Lecture Series is being launched at the PCMA UW Research Centre in Cyprus. The series is dedicated to disseminating the latest results of archaeological research conducted on the island, with particular emphasis on the Hellenistic and Roman periods. The inaugural lecture will be delivered by Dr. Eustathios Raptou […]
The call for submissions has opened for the fifth installment of the academic conference “Chrysomallos: Polish Archaeologists on the Black Sea and in the Caucasus.” The conference will take place on June 2nd, 2026, in a stationary mode. The conference is organized by the Polish Centre of Mediterranean Archaeology, UW and the Faculty of Archaeology, UW. […]
The first PCMA Seminar in the “Local Traditions, Shared Faith: Early Christianity in Comparative Perspective” series will feature Prof. Basema Hamarneh (Institut für Klassische Archäologie, Universität Wien) with a presentation: “The Monastic Traditions of the South Levant in a Transhistorical Perspective”. Abstract: Monasticism in southern Levant reflects a complex interplay between landscape, local tradition, and evolving […]
In the coming months, the PCMA Seminars will feature a new series “Local Traditions, Shared Faith” which will focus on early Christianity in Comparative Perspective across the Eastern Mediterranean. The series is organized by Dr. Aleksandra Pawlikowska-Gwiazda (National Museum in Warsaw), the head of the PCMA UW expedition to Sheikh Abd el-Qurna (Egypt). This seminar series […]
From 23–25 June 2026, the University of Warsaw will host the international conference “Sailing Uncharted Seas. Recent Advances in Pottery Studies in the Near East and Eastern Africa during the Late Antique and Early Medieval Periods.” The conference is dedicated to exploring the still uncharted seas of pottery research relating to the Late Antique and […]