On April 18th, the International Day for Monuments and Sites, also recognized as World Heritage Day, is being celebrated. To mark this occasion, the colleagues at the UNESCO World Heritage site in Nea Paphos (Cyprus) have organized activities for students from a local primary school. Under the supervision of members of the expedition led by […]
A workshop entitled: “Update on Crisis Response, Risk Mitigation and First Aid for Sudan’s Heritage” took place at the UNESCO headquarters in Cairo. Among the workshop’s organizers were the Emergency Response Committee – Cairo Office, the National Corporation for Antiquities and Museums of Sudan (NCAM), UNESCO, the Polish Centre of Mediterranean Archaeology, University of Warsaw and […]
An upcoming Archaeo-Oriental Seminar will take place on April 15th with a lecture by Prof. Miroslav Bárta (the Czech Institute of Egyptology, Charles University) who will present a paper titled “The Latest Research of Necropolises in North Sakkara”. Abstract: “The lecture will provide historical background for the history of the Old Kingdom, a time renowned for […]
Program for the “Chrysomallos: Polish Archaeologists in the Black Sea Region and the Caucasus” conference has been finalized. The conference will be held in a hybrid format on Thursday, April 11th. Attendees can expect a series of presentations (in Polish) unveiling the latest findings from Polish archaeological excavations in Armenia, Georgia, as well as studies […]
The Polish Archaeology in the Mediterranean journal has been indexed in the Directory of Open Access Journals (DOAJ): link. DOAJ, a gold standard for open access publishing, is an extensive, independent index of open access journals aimed to improve their visibility, impact and accessibility, as well as to globally endorse their reputation as sources of […]
We are pleased to inform you that Dr. Mahmoud El-Tayeb and Dr. Grzegorz Majcherek have received positive opinions for appointment as professors at the University of Warsaw, by the resolution of the Senate of the University of Warsaw. Dr. Mahmoud El-Tayeb has been associated with the University of Warsaw since 1976, first as a master’s […]
The Institut Français d’Archéologie Orientale and the Polish Centre of Mediterranean Archaeology, University of Warsaw, Research Center in Cairo are organising an international conference entitled: “Place-making in the desertscape: the socialisation of the Egyptian-Sudanese Eastern Desert landscape in the longue durée (4th millennium BCE–4th century CE).” Abstract: “The desert to the east of the Nile […]
A workshop held at the PCMA UW Research Centre in Cairo delved into the methodology of working with settlement ceramics. This is the first of the planned meetings. It was the first in a series aimed at pottery specialists working in Egypt. The “Working Group on Setlement Ceramics’ Best Practices” meeting was organized by Anna […]
The annual conference on Polish archaeological research in Egypt and Sudan “Poles on the Nile” will take place on 19th–21st of June in a hybrid format. The conference is co-organized by the Department of Archaeology of Egypt and Nubia at the Faculty of Archaeology, University of Warsaw and the Department of African Studies of the Polish […]
The upcoming PCMA Seminar will hold a mini-conference on the subject “Tingitana Frontier Project – The role of Roman watchtowers in the defence system of ancient Volubilis between I. and III. centuries AD”. The event will feature four papers by five members of the Polish-Moroccan research project, focusing on Roman-era remnants in northern Morocco. The event […]
Dr. Tomomi Fushiya’s project entitled “Conservation of monuments and sites in Sudan during the Anglo-Egyptian Condominium period (1898–1956)” has been selected for the Egypt Exploration Society’s Centenary Award. Dr. Fushiya’s research and practice focuses on collaborative archaeology, heritage values and decolonising methodologies in archaeology and heritage management in North Africa. Her latest project investigates the history of […]
A monograph on the wall paintings from late antique Porphyreon (today’s Jiyeh) in Lebanon by Julia M. Burdajewicz has been released in open access. The book was published by Peeters Publishers in the series “Polish Publications in Mediterranean Archaeology”. In 1975, a bulldozer working on a beach in southern Lebanon unearthed dressed stones with wall […]