Maria Nowak got an ERC Consolidator Grant!

We are extremely proud to announce this achievement by our colleague and a CRAC community member! Professor Maria Nowak has received an ERC Consolidator Grant for her project A provincial ...

CRAC Small Grants XVI

The Centre for Research on Ancient Civilizations is pleased to announce the 16th call for applications for CRAC Small Grants. These grants aim to support research and dissemination in the ...

Katinka Sewing – Marie Skłodowska-Curie Fellow at the Faculty of History

We are pleased to welcome Dr. Katinka Sewing as a Marie Skłodowska-Curie Postdoctoral Fellow (2025/26) at the Centre at the Faculty of History. Her project, The Missing Piece: Euphratesia as ...

Islamic Archaeology Conference, 5-8 November 2025

We are delighted to advertise the upcoming Islamic Archaeology Conference. The conference will take place in the Staszic Palace in Warsaw, from the 5th to the 8th of November and ...

Liquid Gold: Olive Oil in Antiquity – Cultivation, Production, Trade, and Cultural Significance

The conference, co-organized by the Polish Centre of Mediterranean Archaeology and the Faculty of Archaeology will take place on 24–27 September 2025 at the University of Warsaw and bring together ...

60th anniversary of the excavations in Old Dongola

The Centre for Mediterranean Archaeology at the University of Warsaw invites you to participate in the celebrations marking sixty years of research in Old Dongola – one of Sudan's most ...

Guest lecture: Erasing Cultural Memory

On September 17th, Dr. Shadia Abdrabo Abdelwahab Abdalla (National Corporation of Antiquities and Museums) will present “Erasing Cultural Memory: The Memoricide of Cultural Identity in Sudan’s Modern History” as a guest ...

Conference: The Shady Trade of Hermes: Theft, Thieves and Thievery in the Ancient World University of Warsaw, 25-27 September 2025

CRAC is getting five! And is going to celebrate this anniversary with a conference The Shady Trade of Hermes: Theft, Thieves and Thievery in the Ancient World to be held on ...

Conference “Barbarians in Rome” 18-19.06.2025

The international conference “Barbarians in Rome” was held on 18–19 June 2025, co-organized by the Department of Archaeology at the University of Warsaw and the Station in Rome of the ...