The PCMA Research Centre in Cairo has the pleasure of inviting you to a lecture by Mariusz Jucha and Grzegorz Bąk-Pryc Tell el-Murra. New discoveries at the 4th–3rd millennium BC site in the Nile Delta The lecture will be held on 7th April 2016 at 6:00 pm in the PCMA Research Centre in Cairo, 11, […]
The conference, co-organized by the Polish Centre of Mediterranean Archaeology and the Institute of Archaeology, University of Warsaw, will accompany the exhibition, extending the themes of the presentation for the general public. It will consist of two main thematic blocks, specifically designed to bring different levels of knowledge to an interested viewership. Special session: “Endangered […]
Palmyra in Syria, Hatra and Nimrud in Iraq – these names have been appearing lately across news headlines throughout the world. They are names of ancient cities that have fallen victim of the current crisis in the Middle East. Along with many other archaeological sites in Syria and Iraq these cities were investigated by PCMA […]
Last Friday, 18th March 2016, Polish archaeologists welcomed H.E. Ibrahim Ghandour, the Sudanese Minister of Foreign Affairs to the University of Warsaw. After a visit to the Faras Gallery in the National Museum of Warsaw, the Minister joined Polish specialists working in Sudan at a meeting in the Institute of Archaeology, University of Warsaw. The […]
The PCMA Research Centre in Cairo has the pleasure of inviting you to a lecture by Piotr Osypiński: The sacral complex of the pastoral cultures of the Eastern Desert at the end of the 5th millennium BC in Wadi Khashab The lecture has been rescheduled to 21st March 2016 at 8:00 pm in the PCMA […]
The Polish Centre of Mediterranean Archaeology and the Institute of Archaeology, University of Warsaw are co-organizing a conference on University of Warsaw research in the Near East. The conference “Poles in the Near East” will take place on 1–3 April 2016 in the Institute of Archaeology. We extend the invitation to actively participate in a […]
Archaeological Museum in Krakow will house an exhibition “Twenty years of Polish excavations in Saqqara (Egypt)”. It is co-organized also by the Institute of Mediterranean and Oriental Cultures and the Polish Centre of Mediterranean Archaeology, University of Warsaw. The exhibition offers and overview of the major discoveries of Polish archaeologists working with the PCMA mission […]
During the annual Sun Festival at Abu Simbel an opening ceremony of a new Abu Simbel Salvage Documentation Center was held. On this occasion, the Polish Centre of Mediterranean Archaeology, University of Warsaw presented this institution with photographs commemorating the participation of Professor Kazimierz Michałowski in the salvage project. Prof. Michałowski, nestor of Polish Mediterranean […]
The Polish Centre of Mediterranean Archaeology, University of Warsaw will grant scholarships to young scholars for research projects related to the archaeology and history of Egypt, Sudan and the neighboring regions. The scholarships are based in the PCMA Research Centre in Cairo and are funded by a special subsidy from the Polish Ministry of Science […]
Two PCMA projects received Luxor Times Egyptology Awards this February in Luxor Mummification Museum. They were presented to mission directors by the Egyptian Antiquities Minister, Dr Mamdouh El-Damaty. In the first category: Top 10 Discoveries of 2015, the Berenike Project working in a Roman harbor in Berenike on the Red Sea coast was distinguished. The […]
The PCMA Research Centre in Cairo has the pleasure of inviting to a lecture by Dr Grzegorz Ochała: Monks, Archangels, and a king’s son: Recent epigraphic work at the monastery of Ghazali (Sudan) It will presented on Wednesday, 27th January, 2016 at 6:00 pm in the PCMA Research Centre in Cairo, 11, Mahallah St., Heliopolis, […]
During the first PCMA annual conference adjuncts and other scientific staff of the PCMA reported on their participation in research projects in 2015. The 20 presentations delivered during the session recounted the staff’s involvement in PCMA-affiliated archaeological missions in Egypt, Sudan, Syria, Kuwait and Oman and in other scholarly endeavors pertaining to the participants’ individual research interests. […]