A joint workshop organized by the DAI and IFAO in Cairo on 24 and 25 September 2014 gathered participants from different missions working in Egypt to discuss “Early Medieval Pottery in Egypt (7th–10th century AD)”. The workshop was dedicated to comparing different approaches to understanding the cultural transition of Egypt from Late Antiquity to the […]
An exhibition and conference occasioned by the 10th anniversary of Polish conservation Mission in Lebanon were held in the French Institute in Beirut. Conservators from the Academy of Fine Arts in Warsaw, assisted by archaeologists from the PCMA, brought to light and rescued from oblivion stunning wall paintings from medieval churches in Northern Lebanon – […]
Articles from the latest issue of our journal Studia Palmyreńskie, volume 12 are now available online. The 24 articles by leading specialists in the history, archaeology and epigraphy of Palmyra can be accessed via the Central and Eastern European Online Library C.E.E.O.L. Papers from the previous volume, Studia Palmyreńskie 12, can be downloaded from our […]
Researchers studying the culture of the Ancient Egyptian Old Kingdom are meeting in Warsaw on 2-6 July 2014 at the sixth edition of the international “Old Kingdom Art and Archaeology” conference organized at the Institute of Archaeology of the University of Warsaw. Previous conferences were held in major centers of egyptological studies: Cairo, Paris, Munich, […]
The Institute of Archaeology of the University of Warsaw in cooperation with the Polish Centre of Mediterranean Archaeology invite to a conference on the results of recent Polish archaeological fieldwork and conservation projects in Egypt and Sudan: Polacy nad Nilem / Poles on the Nile The conference will take place in the Institute of Archaeology, […]
We are happy to announce that Dr. Tomasz Waliszewski, the deputy director of the Polish Centre of Mediterranean Archaeology, University of Warsaw, received his habilitation on the May 28th, 2014 from the Faculty of History of the University of Warsaw. Dr. Waliszewski is the director of PCMA excavations in Lebanon (Chhîm, Jiyeh) ongoing since 1996. […]
A new exhibition “Egyptian sands speak (not only) in Greek” presents a collection of 26 papyri held by the Rafał Taubenschlag Foundation. It is complemented with plates presenting Egyptian and Sudanese archaeological sites excavated by the PCMA UW, which yielded epigraphic finds. The display aims at familiarizing the public with this largest of the Polish […]
Our new, popular book series has been created with a view to present major archaeological sites excavated by PCMA missions that are of interest not only to scholars but also to non-archaeologists with a passion for history and discovery. The PCMA Archaeological Guides will be concise, richly-illustrated overviews of the history and material culture of […]
Polish Centre of Mediterranean Archaeology, Cairo Branch and Dr László Tüszke, Balassi Institute in Cairo have the honour to invite you to the event, presenting an art of Piotr Parandowski Archaeologist behind the camera. Moving Art of Piotr Parandowski which will presented on 15th and 16th March 2014 in Cairo. For more information see: Invitation
Polish Centre of Mediterranean Archaeology, Cairo Branch has the honour to invite you to a lecture by Dr Jean-Baptiste Humbert Recent Byzantine Archaeology in Gaza Strip which will presented on Tuesday, 11th March 2014 at 7.00 p.m. in Cairo (11 Mahalla st., Cairo –Heliopolis). Humbert_invitation_2.pdf
Polish Centre of Mediterranean Archaeology, Cairo Branch has the honour to invite you to a lecture by Joanna Rądkowska: Lotus Temple at Berenike. which will presented on Tuesday, 11th February 2014 at 7.00 p.m. in Cairo (11 Mahalla st., Cairo –Heliopolis). Radkowska_invitation_2014_01.pdf
Studia Palmyreńskie is a periodical presenting the results of research on various aspects of the art, material culture, architecture and archaeology of Palmyra, carried out since 1959 within the framework of archaeological excavations run under the auspices of the Polish Centre of Mediterranean Archaeology of the University of Warsaw. Eleven volumes have been published since […]