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RC in Cairo News
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ARCE grant for the conservation of wall paintings in Naqlun (Egypt)
The American Research Center in Egypt (ARCE) awarded an Antiquities Endowment Fund grant for the project “Under the wings of an Archangel: Conservation work of wall paintings in the Church of the Archangel Gabriel in Naqlun”. The ARCE Antiquities Endowment Fund (AEF) Grants Program will fund the project for one year. The principal investigator is Dr. […]
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National Science Center grant OPUS 25 for research on domestic life in Berenike
Dr. Emilia Smagur was awarded an Opus 25 grant for her project “Inhabiting post-Roman Egyptian port: the households of Berenike”. It was enabled by additional financing received by the National Science Centre. Dr Smagur’s project aims to explore the domestic life in the post-Roman (4th-6th centuries CE) Eastern Desert port through a multidisciplinary study of […]
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Research in Egypt
Polish archaeologists have been present in Egypt since the 1930s. It was in Egypt that the Polish school of Mediterranean archaeology was formed and honed, working on various sites from different periods. For decades now several missions under PCMA auspices have been working in Egypt every year. Their projects encompass archaeological excavations, on-site conservation, as well as site management.