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IMPORTANT – update
The last few months of the project have been particularly intense. Between April 3rd and June 15th, the study season in Paphos and Episkopi (Kourion) took place. The research works focused on the continuation of the macroscopic analysis of [...]
PCMA Seminar – Łukasz Miszk: What would Indiana Jones say about the streets of Nea Paphos?
The PCMA Seminar series will host a talk (in Polish) by Dr. Łukasz Miszk, entitled “What would Indiana Jones say about the streets of Nea Paphos”. The presentation is related to an ongoing project investigating the spatial layout of Nea [...]
Lecture on non-invasive research in archaeology by Prof. Martina Seifert
Prof. Martina Seifert will present an open lecture “Cities and Harbours. Non-invasive research in Archaeology at the University of Hamburg”. Abstract: “Since 2012, the University of Hamburg has a teaching and research focus in the field of non-invasive fieldwork [...]
PCMA Seminar: Underwater realms – imagining and conceptualizing the sea as a 3D space
The next PCMA Seminar will host a talk by Mari Yamasaki related to her Polonez-Bis grant project. Her presentation is entitled “Underwater realms – imagining and conceptualizing the sea as a three-dimensional space”. Abstract: “The study of ancient ‘spaces’ (domestic, [...]
PCMA Seminar: Middle and Late Roman cooking pottery from Nea Paphos. New data on old pottery
The first of this year’s PCMA Seminars will host a talk (in Polish) by Dr. Kamila Nocoń: “Middle and Late Roman cooking pottery from Nea Paphos. New data on old pottery”. Abstract: “The presentation aims to present an ongoing project [...]
POLONEZ BIS grant for PCMA UW
Polish National Science Centre has announced that it will fund three additional projects in the POLONEZ BIS grant competition. Among them is one submitted by Dr. Mari Yamasaki from Johannes Gutenberg University, Mainz. It will be the first project [...]
2nd archaeological engagement program at Nea Paphos – Archaeologists’ reflections
During the autumn fieldwork season, a group of highschool students from Paphos visited the ongoing excavations of the Maloutena-Agora Project (MA-P) in the Nea Paphos Archaeological Park. The visit was organized as part of an archaeological engagement program. MA-P [...]
Completion of the international competition for the creation of shelters for the protection of mosaics and other archaeological remains in Nea Pafos
The Department of Antiquities of the Ministry of Transport, Communications and Works and the Getty Conservation Institute of the U.S.A. announce that after a long-term process, the winner of a joint international competition inaugurated in Fall 2019 for the [...]
New start of the IMPORTant project
The project started on 1 October 2021. Macroscopic analyses of ceramics from Nea Paphos and Kourion (Research tasks 1&2) were carried out in two trips between 6th and 20th October and 26th October and 10th November 2021. During the work [...]