Each year, since 1959 till the beginning of the Syrian civil war in 2011, a Polish archaeological team was working in Palmyra. The research was instigated by Professor Kazimierz Michałowski, the founder of the Polish school of Mediterranean archaeology, and since 1973 for almost 40 years the expedition was headed by Professor Michał Gawlikowski from […]
With deep sorrow we have learned of the brutal execution on 18 August 2015 of Khaled el-Assad, longtime director of antiquities in Palmyra and colleague and friend of the Polish Centre of Mediterranean Archaeology UW. He was killed by DAESH militants. For forty years, from 1963 to 2003, Khaled el Assad directed the Museum in […]
The 19th International Conference of Ethiopian Studies "Ethiopia – diversity and interconnections through space and time" will be held in Warsaw on August 24th–28th 2015. It is co-organized by the Polish Africanist Society, the Department of African Languages and Cultures, Faculty of Oriental Studies, University of Warsaw, and the National Museum in Warsaw, with the […]
A mosaic floor decorated with geometric motifs was discovered after just three weeks of work by a joint expedition from the University of Warsaw (Polish Centre of Mediterranean Archaeology and the Institute of Archaeology) at the Roman fort of Apsaros in modern Gonio. The mosaic floor covered a large room (roughly 100 m2) in a […]
The Polish Centre of Mediterranean Archaeology of the University of Warsaw announces changes in the management of the institute, in Warsaw and in Cairo. Effective July 1, 2015, Dr. Zbigniew Szafrański will be succeeded by Dr. Artur Obłuski as Director of the Research Center of the PCMA UW in Cairo. Dr. Szafrański was head of […]
A bi-annual conference on latest developments in the field of archaeological prospection will be held in Warsaw this September. It is co-organized by the PCMA, the Institute of Archaeology and Ethnology of the Polish Academy of Sciences, Scientific Association of Polish Archaeologists and International Society for Archaeological Prospection. The 11th International Conference on Archaeological Prospection […]
The journal Polish Archaeology in the Mediterranean, published by the Polish Centre of Mediterranean Archaeology, University of Warsaw, has provided a forum for presenting the results of extensive work by teams of Polish archaeologists and related specialists, associated with the PCMA and with various other research institutions in Poland and abroad. For the past quarter […]
For the tenth time in a row, archaeologists and scholars from associated fields of studies, working on sites in Egypt and Sudan, will participate in a conference, “Poles on the Nile: the 2014/2015 season”, organized at the University of Warsaw Institute of Archaeology by the Department of the Archaeology of Egypt and Nubia in cooperation […]
Polish Centre of Mediterranean Archaeology, Cairo Branch has the honour to invite you to a lecture by dr Nabil Swelim Third Dynasty Substructures; Reminders and Remarks. which will presented on Tuesday, 9th June 2015, at 7.00 p.m. in Cairo (11 Mahalla st., Cairo – Heliopolis).
Polish Centre of Mediterranean Archaeology, Cairo Branch has the honour to invite you to a lecture by prof. Rafał Czerner 20 years of the Egyptian-Polish Conservation Mission Marina el-Alamein. which will presented on Tuesday, 2nd June 2015, at 7.00 p.m. in Cairo (11 Mahalla st., Cairo – Heliopolis).
In 2015 we are celebrating the 20th anniversary of the Egyptian-Polish Conservation Mission in Marina el-Alamein with an exhibition in the Alexandria National Museum. The Conservation Mission has been working since 1995 as a cooperation between the Egyptian State Council for Antiquities, the Polish Centre of Mediterranean Archaeology, University of Warsaw and Wrocław University of […]
Exhibition on the occasion of the 50th anniversary of Polish archaeological work in Nea Paphos opens in the Cyprus Museum in Nicosia. It is co-organized by the Polish Centre of Mediterranean Archaeology (PCMA), University of Warsaw and the Department of Antiquities of the Republic of Cyprus. The co-organizers are Institute of Mediterranean and Oriental Cultures, […]