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RC in Cairo News
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PolAr lecture in Cairo: Recent Discoveries at Qubbet el-Hawa
The PCMA Research Centre in Cairo invites to an open lecture: Recent Discoveries at Qubbet el-Hawa by Prof. Martin Bommas, Director of the Museum of Ancient Cultures and Director of the Qubbet el-Hawa Research Project Macquarie University in Sydney, Australia. Abstract: In 2016, the Qubbet el-Hawa Research Project started at a site below the upper […]
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Start of fieldwork for the ERC grant “UMMA” project
The first excavation season of the project “UMMA – Urban Metamorphosis of the community of a Medieval African capital city” has just begun. It is founded by a European Research Council Starting Grant awarded to Dr Artur Obłuski from the Polish Centre of Mediterranean Archaeology, University of Warsaw (PCMA UW). It involves a 5-year program […]
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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.
