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News
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PCMA Scholarship in Egypt – additional recruitment
Due to the release of several places for PCMA Scholarship in Egypt (Stypendium CAŚ), we announce an additional call for the current academic year (until the end of 2022). The Polish Centre of Mediterranean Archaeology, University of Warsaw (PCMA UW) offers scholarships for scientists wishing to conduct research in Egypt. The scholarships have been awarded […]
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Two PCMA scholar’s seminars at the Research Centre in Cairo
The PCMA UW Research Centre in Cairo organised two lectures of PCMA scholarship-holders. Due to the COVID-19 pandemic, the events remain closed to the public. Mieszko Karnas, The Ptolemaic school textbook P. Cairo 65445 in the light of educational practices in the Graeco-Roman world. Cairo 65445 is a unique school textbook from the 3rd century […]
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New National Science Centre grants for PCMA UW
The National Science Centre has awarded funding for two new projects to be carried out at the Polish Centre of Mediterranean Archaeology of the University of Warsaw. Dr Iwona Kozieradzka-Ogunmakin received an Opus grant for the project Life and Death in Trying Times: A Bioarchaeological Study of the Effect of Socio-political and Climatic Changes on […]
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Deir el-Bahari: extraordinary discovery under the Hathor Chapel
In 2021, the Polish-Egyptian Archaeological and Conservation Expedition at the Temple of Hatshepsut at Deir el-Bahari worked in the field twice, in the spring and autumn seasons. The excavation of the tomb located below the Hathor Chapel provided exceptional discoveries – several hundred votive offerings to Hathor, the patron goddess of the Theban necropolis and […]
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Romuald Schild (1936–2021)
With deep sorrow we received the news of the death of Prof. Romuald Schild, an excellent archaeologist, long-time director of the Institute of Archaeology and Ethnology of the Polish Academy of Sciences. Professor Schild passed away on 23 November 2021. Professor Schild’s research on the prehistory of North-Eastern Africa is an enormous and invaluable contribution […]
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Lecture in RC Cairo: Tracing the foreign people in Ancient Egyptian society
A guest lecture by Dr Elena Panaite, pursuing a PCMA-IFAO post-doctoral fellowship, was held at the PCMA UW Research Centre in Cairo. The lecture Tracing the foreign people in Ancient Egyptian society through textual sources accompanied the meeting of the series “Seminar of PCMA scholarship-holders”. Due to the epidemic situation, this event was also only […]
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PCMA scholar’s seminar: The Autopsy, the Nile and the Romans… And Cinderella (?)
The PCMA UW Research Centre in Cairo organised another lecture of PCMA scholarship-holders. Due to the COVID-19 pandemic, the events remain closed to the public. Łukasz Suski, The Autopsy, the Nil and the Romans… And Cinderella (?) – Egypt Shown in the Seventeenth Strabo’s Geography Book: Abstract Strabo was an extraordinary thinker due to his […]
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Presentations from the conference “Poles in the Near East” 2021 available on YouTube
On the PCMA UW YouTube channel you can now see some presentations from the international panel on Cypriot archaeology which took place during this year’s “Poles in the Near East” conference. The opening lecture was also associated with this day-long panel on research in Cyprus. It was given by Prof. John Lund and entitled Cypriots […]
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CfP: 15th International Conference for Nubian Studies
Call for papers: Registration for the 15th International Conference for Nubian Studies has started. Scholars are welcome to submit proposals for papers or posters, or to sign up for workshops, using the registration form. The deadline for submitting paper proposals is 31 March 2022. Every four years the International Conference for Nubian Studies brings together […]
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Development of the collaborative archaeology team
We are happy to announce the development of the collaborative archaeology team. Following a selection competition, Dr Tomomi Fushiya chose two persons to work with her. Eleanna Avouri will work as an assistant to support the research about the role of archaeological heritage and migration to help designing and implementing community engagement programmes in Paphos, […]
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Open Access: Prof. Gawlikowski’s book on the temple of Allat in Palmyra
During the ongoing Open Access Week, Prof. Michał Gawlikowski’s monograph “Le sanctuaire d’Allat à Palmyre” has been released in Open Access by the University of Warsaw Press. The book presents the results of research in the temple of the goddess Allat in the Syrian city of Palmyra. The discovery of the temple by PCMA UW […]