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: […]
The International Summer School “Augmented Archaeology. Archaeological research projects and modern science” (AuAr 2023) invites applicants for the course which will take place in Paphos (Cyprus) this September. The AuAr 2023 is organized by the Polish Centre of Mediterranean Archaeology, University of Warsaw, and partners from the “MA-P Maloutena and Agora in the layout of […]
In the end of June, the PCMA Seminar will host the first meeting in a new lecture series on Ancient Indian Ocean ports. This hybrid event will be focused on archaeological perspectives of Berenike as a hub in long-distance exchange networks involving India, Africa and the Mediterranean region. The lecture series, which will continue in […]
During the penultimate in this academic year archaeo-oriental seminar Dr Tomasz Michalik (PCMA UW) is going to present a paper entitled “Between mental and material heritage. Perception of medieval Nubian paintings by Sudanese and Western people – eye-tracking study”. Abstract: One of the tasks of archaeologists is to make archaeological heritage accessible to the wider […]