Location Warsaw, Poland Website www.pcma.uw.edu.pl | Director Dr. Tomasz Waliszewski Academic affiliation University of Warsaw | |
The Polish Centre of Mediterranean Archaeology (PCMA; Polish: Centrum Archeologii Śródziemnomorskiej im. Kazimierza Michałowskiego UW) operates as an independent research institute of the University of Warsaw under the present name since 1990. It is dedicated to organizing, implementing and coordinating archaeological research, both excavations and study projects, as well as conservation, reconstruction and restoration projects, in northeastern Africa, the Near East and Cyprus. Projects include sites covering a broad chronological spectrum from the dawn of civilization (prehistoric times) through all the historic periods of the ancient Mediterranean civilizations to Late Antiquity and early Islam. Tasks beside fieldwork include comprehensive documentation of finds, archives management and publication of the results in keeping with international research standards. The PCMA manages the Research Centre in Cairo.
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History
The PCMA draws on the pioneering archaeological work of Polish archaeologist and egyptologist Prof. Kazimierz Michałowski, who established in 1959 the Research Station of Mediterranean Archaeology in Cairo, the first Polish institution dedicated to archaeological research in the Nile Valley.
Research projects and teams
The PCMA currently runs 28 archaeological projects and teams (data for 2012). Detailed information on the scope of the projects are presented on the Center’s home page, including an online scientific Newsletter.
Egypt
Sudan
Syria
Lebanon
Cyprus
Kuwait
Publications
The PCMA publishes the results of its excavation and restoration projects in two journals and a series of monographs.
Journals
Series
Conferences
The PCMA UW is a joint organizer of the annual “Poles on the Nile” conference, presenting the results of excavations carried out by Polish teams working in Egypt and Sudan. In 2006 the Polish Centre coorganized the 11th International Conference of Nubian Studies and in 2012 the 8th International Congress of the Archaeology of the Ancient Near East (ICAANE), the most important and well attended archaeological conferences in their respective fields.