The Polish Centre of Mediterranean Archaeology, University of Warsaw is moving to a new office in the same building. The relocation began on 16th of August and will last about a week. The PCMA UW remains in the office building by the Daszyński Roundabout (69 Prosta St). The new office is located on floor 6A. […]
Dr. Marcin Kotyl from the Polish Centre of Mediterranean Archaeology, University of Warsaw, has been awarded a research fellowship from the Bekker NAWA Programme for a two-year postdoctoral fellowship at the University of Cologne. As part of the fellowship, Dr. Kotyl will work on his project “Musical instruments in Graeco-Roman Egypt: A papyrological and archeological […]
PCMA UW Research Centre in Cairo and Institut français d’archéologie orientale awarded their fifth joint Post-Doctoral Fellowship. The new Fellow will be Dr. Cristina Alù. As part of the scholarship, she will organize a conference “Place-making in the desertscape: the socialization of the Egyptian-Sudanese Eastern Desert landscape in the longue durée (4th millennium BCE–4th century […]
The Director of the Polish Centre of Mediterranean Archaeology University of Warsaw announces a competition for the position of an adjunct (post-doc) in the project “Życie w Makuryckiej Metropoli: Bioarcheologiczne badania średniowiecznej Starej Dongoli, Sudan” (Life in the Makurian Metropolis: A Bioarchaeological Inquiry into Medieval Old Dongola, Sudan), NCN nr 2020/37/B/HS3/00348-OPUS 19. Detailed requirements can […]
Director of the NCN project nr 2022/45/B/HS3/01708-OPUS 23 entitled “Życie w Makuryckiej Metropoli: Bioarcheologiczne badania średniowiecznej Starej Dongoli, Sudan” (Life in the Makurian Metropolis: A Bioarchaeological Inquiry into Medieval Old Dongola, Sudan) announces a competition for the position of student/PhD student at the Polish Centre of Mediterranean Archaeology University of Warsaw. Detailed requirements can be […]
We are pleased to announce that Dr. Artur Obłuski, director of the Polish Centre of Mediterranean Archaeology UW, has been appointed associate professor by the University Senate’s resolution of June 29, 2023. Prof. Artur Obłuski, PhD, has been the director of the PCMA UW since 2020, having served as acting director for the previous two […]
Polish Centre of Mediterranean Archaeology University of Warsaw is observing the situation related to the crisis in Sudan with great concern. While the fighting is escalating, PCMA UW stands in solidarity with the population of Sudan – a country with which it has been associated since the 1960s, when the first Polish archaeological research in […]
With sadness, we received the news of the passing of Beata Madaj, a long-time employee of the Polish Centre of Mediterranean Archaeology, University of Warsaw. She had been working at the University of Warsaw for three decades. In 2001, she transferred to the PCMA administration from the University of Warsaw Bursary. At the PCMA, she […]
Dr. Anastasiia Stupko-Lubczynska from the Polish Centre of Mediterranean Archaeology, University of Warsaw received the Antiquity Prize. She was recognized for her article on the organization of work of ancient Egyptian artists who carved the wall reliefs in the Chapel of Hatshepsut in Deir el-Bahari published in Antiquity in 2022. Antiquity, a Cambridge Core journal […]
The annual “Poles on the Nile” conference on Polish archaeological research in Egypt and Sudan will be held on 21st–23rd June 2023 in hybrid mode. For the first time, all conference papers will be presented in English. The event is co-organized by the Department of Egyptian and Nubian Archaeology, Faculty of Archaeology and the Department […]
During the last meeting in June as part of the PCMA Seminar series, Pablo Gutiérrez de León Juberías from the Spanish National Research Council will present a lecture entitled “Looking at heritage from above. Documenting and interpreting the north-eastern Horn of Africa’s heritage using field surveys, excavations and remote sensing”. This will be the last […]
This year, the annual “Poles on the Nile” conference on Polish archaeological research in Egypt and Sudan will feature a guest lecture by Maria Carmela Gatto of the Polish Academy of Sciences: “Recent research and discoveries in the First Nile Cataract region: A collaboration between the Aswan-Kom Ombo Archaeological Project AKAP and the BORDERSCAPE Project”. Abstract: […]