The Polish Centre of Mediterranean Archaeology, University of Warsaw, launched a research program in Beit Ras in Jordan, the site of the ancient city of Captiolias. The archaeological mission, is a cooperation between the PCMA and the Department of Antiquities of the Hashemite Kingdom of Jordan. The Polish side of the project is directed by […]
We are happy to inform that three projects affiliated with the PCMA have just received funding from National Science Foundation grants. Congratulations to the project heads on their success! “Preludium 7” grants: Iwona Zych: “Religious practices and beliefs in the "Red Land": religious building complexes and cult objects from the port of Berenike as a […]
An agreement signed at the end of October in Riyadh launched the first Saudi-Polish archaeological project: excavations at the site of Aynuna at the Red Sea coast of the Tabuk province in Saudi Arabia. The agreement between the Saudi Commission for Tourism and Antiquities (SCTA), represented by Dr Hussein Abu Al Hassan, and the Polish […]
“Archaeology at the University of Warsaw” exhibition was presented in Beijing, at an invitation from the Department of Archaeology and Museology of the Peking University. Plates presenting the scope of archaeological work undertaken by University of Warsaw missions can be seen at the Arthur M. Sackler Museum of Art and Archaeology at the Peking University […]
An exhibition presenting the work of archaeologists from the University of Warsaw has just opened in Armenia. Achievements of the Polish Centre of Mediterranean Archaeology, the Institute of Archaeology and the Centre for Precolumbian Studies are displayed in the archaeological museum in Metsamor. The exhibition was opened by Prof. Mariusz Ziółkowski and Mrs. Arev Samuelyan, […]
A joint workshop organized by the DAI and IFAO in Cairo on 24 and 25 September 2014 gathered participants from different missions working in Egypt to discuss “Early Medieval Pottery in Egypt (7th–10th century AD)”. The workshop was dedicated to comparing different approaches to understanding the cultural transition of Egypt from Late Antiquity to the […]
An exhibition and conference occasioned by the 10th anniversary of Polish conservation Mission in Lebanon were held in the French Institute in Beirut. Conservators from the Academy of Fine Arts in Warsaw, assisted by archaeologists from the PCMA, brought to light and rescued from oblivion stunning wall paintings from medieval churches in Northern Lebanon – […]
Articles from the latest issue of our journal Studia Palmyreńskie, volume 12 are now available online. The 24 articles by leading specialists in the history, archaeology and epigraphy of Palmyra can be accessed via the Central and Eastern European Online Library C.E.E.O.L. Papers from the previous volume, Studia Palmyreńskie 12, can be downloaded from our […]
Researchers studying the culture of the Ancient Egyptian Old Kingdom are meeting in Warsaw on 2-6 July 2014 at the sixth edition of the international “Old Kingdom Art and Archaeology” conference organized at the Institute of Archaeology of the University of Warsaw. Previous conferences were held in major centers of egyptological studies: Cairo, Paris, Munich, […]
The Institute of Archaeology of the University of Warsaw in cooperation with the Polish Centre of Mediterranean Archaeology invite to a conference on the results of recent Polish archaeological fieldwork and conservation projects in Egypt and Sudan: Polacy nad Nilem / Poles on the Nile The conference will take place in the Institute of Archaeology, […]
We are happy to announce that Dr. Tomasz Waliszewski, the deputy director of the Polish Centre of Mediterranean Archaeology, University of Warsaw, received his habilitation on the May 28th, 2014 from the Faculty of History of the University of Warsaw. Dr. Waliszewski is the director of PCMA excavations in Lebanon (Chhîm, Jiyeh) ongoing since 1996. […]
A new exhibition “Egyptian sands speak (not only) in Greek” presents a collection of 26 papyri held by the Rafał Taubenschlag Foundation. It is complemented with plates presenting Egyptian and Sudanese archaeological sites excavated by the PCMA UW, which yielded epigraphic finds. The display aims at familiarizing the public with this largest of the Polish […]