The Department of Conservation and Heritage, Polish Centre of Mediterranean Archaeology, University of Warsaw is pleased to announce an open call for internship applications. During a two‑month paid internship, we offer: – Deepening knowledge of conservation documentation and methods of condition mapping; – Working with archival materials related to conservation and archaeological research conducted mainly in Sudan […]
To all friends and colleagues of the PCMA UW and their families, we wish a healthy, joyful, and peaceful holiday season, as well as prosperity in all personal and professional endeavors in the upcoming year of 2026.
University of Warsaw students are welcome to enroll in general university courses taught by our staff. The Polish Centre of Mediterranean Archaeology, University of Warsaw, offers three courses in the Humanities and two OGUN Social Science courses. Two courses will be tought in English. In the group of Social Science subjects: [EN] „Archaeology of Islamic North Africa: […]
The upcoming PCMA seminar will feature Dr. Julie Marchand (Fed-tWIN researcher, Université Libre de Bruxelles (ULB) & Royal Museum of Art and History, Brussels) with a presentation: „Echoes of Trade and Transformation: Ceramic Reuse at the Byzantine Fort of Deir el-Atrash”. Abstract: This presentation explores the economic and social aspects of ceramic reuse during the […]
The European Research Council (ERC) has just announced the latest results of its grant competitions. Among the awardees is Prof. UW Maria Nowak from the Polish Centre of Mediterranean Archaeology of the University of Warsaw. Her project, PeriPolis – A provincial capital polis at the end of the Roman era. Periphery or a center of power? has […]
Polish Centre of Mediterranean Archaeology, University of Warsaw, invites attendees to the upcoming seminars in the “Pot Talks – A Multidisciplinary Approach to Ceramics from Africa and Beyond” series. The “Pot Talks – A multidisciplinary approach to ceramics from Africa and beyond” is a thematic series within the PCMA Seminar. It is organised by Dr. Katarzyna de Lellis-Danys (PCMA UW, […]
On Sunday, December 7th, the PCMA UW Cairo Seminars continue at the PCMA Research Centre in Cairo. Dr. Patryk Chudzik (Polish Centre of Mediterranean Archaeology, University of Warsaw) will deliver a lecture: “The History of the Temple of Hatshepsut at Deir el-Bahari in the light of recent excavation in the Hathor Cult Complex”. Abstract: The great rock […]
The National Science Centre of Poland has announced the results of two grant competitions: OPUS 29 and PRELUDIUM 24. Among the applications selected for funding are three projects that will be carried out at the Polish Centre of Mediterranean Archaeology, University of Warsaw. Two projects in the PRELUDIUM competition concern inscriptions, although approached from entirely […]
The upcoming PCMA seminar will feature Dr. Matthew Dalton (University of Oxford & University of Western Australia) with a presentation: „Tracing Nile floods and climate change in the Nubian archaeological archive”. Abstract: This presentation discusses the preliminary results of a digital reinterpretation of archival aerial photographs, maps and site records from the mid-20th century Archaeological Salvage […]
Dr. Tomomi Fushiya from the Polish Centre of Mediterranean Archaeology, University of Warsaw has received an ALIPH Foundation grant for the project “Irkoni”, dedicated to safeguarding the unique earthen-built heritage of the Sikoot region in northern Sudan. This initiative aims to document historic earthen architecture, collect oral histories and disaster memories, and rehabilitate a pilot […]
Dr. Marcin Kotyl from the Polish Centre of Mediterranean Archaeology, University of Warsaw, has been awarded two new research grants. The funding will enable him to carry out advanced studies on ship construction techniques in Roman and Greco-Roman Egypt. As part of the Bekker NAWA program, Dr Kotyl will analyse papyrological sources, literary descriptions, and […]
On Monday, December 1st, the PCMA UW Cairo Seminars continue at the PCMA Research Centre in Cairo. Dr Abdelrahman Medhat (Egyptian Museum in Cairo) will deliver a lecture: “Artificial Intelligence and Climate Change: Advancing Insight into the Risks Facing Egyptian Cultural Heritage Sites”. Abstract: Egypt’s cultural heritage stands among the most extraordinary legacies of human civilisation—yet it is […]