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. […]
An exhibition Polish excavations in Marea, Egypt, 2000–2014, occasioned by the 15th anniversary of PCMA mission’s excavations in Marea, Egypt, will open in Cairo. It will be held in the Egyptian Center for International Cultural Cooperation. The exhibition will be inaugurated on 17 January, 2016 by H.E. Dr. Kamilia Sobhy, First Undersecretary of State for […]
We are happy to announce that our annual Polish Archaeology in the Mediterranean shot up in the ranking of the Polish Ministry of Science and Higher Education to 12 points from the earlier 7. PAM was first evaluated by the Ministry in 2012, with a rating of 4 points. In the past three years we […]
we wish a peaceful and warm Holiday Season and success, satisfaction and pleasant archeological surprises in the New 2016 Year Polish Centre of Mediterranean Archaeology, University of Warsaw