Author Archives: frontierwanderings

The Marie Skłodowska-Curie Fellowship includes two research visits. My first research visit was at the National Museum in Warsaw (NMW). The NMW was founded in 1862 as the Museum of Fine Arts, one of the oldest art museums in Poland. … Continue reading →

The new academic year starts with the most important conference in Nubian studies. Since 1972, this conference has been organized every four years for archaeologists, epigraphers, historians, and other scholars working on the ancient and modern history of Nubia (Sudan … Continue reading →

Gertrud J.M. van Loon, Le Deir Anba Hadra à Assouan : nouveau départ pour les recherches, dans: A. Boud’hors et C. Louis (éds.), Études Coptes XV. Dix-septième journée d’études (Lisbonne, 18-20 juin 2015), Paris: de Boccard 2018 (Cahiers de la bibliothèque … Continue reading →

Members from Polish missions working in Egypt and Sudan reported on their work during the past season. And as three days could easily be filled with all teams reporting on their fieldwork and research, you can imagine the number of … Continue reading →

During this yearly conference for scholars working in Nubian studies at Polish universities and institutions and in museums, we (Dobrochna and Gertrud) presented the project for the first time: “Frontier Wanderings. Church Decoration in the Aswan Region and in Lower … Continue reading →

We, Dobrochna and Gertrud, worked in the library of the International Centre for the Study of the Preservation and Restoration of Cultural Property (ICCROM) in the Via di S. Michele (Trastevere) and the ‘fototeca’, archives and library of the Istituto … Continue reading →