The Borderscape Project

Happy Holidays!

From all of us to all of you!

A special section, edited by our PI, Maria Carmela Gatto, and dedicated to ancient borderscapes, has been published in the latest issue of Etudes et Travaux. The contributions were first presented at a symposium organised to celebrate the end of our project and at the EAA conference in Rome in 2024, where a session on borderscapes was organised by our PI.
Congrats to the contributors!
Narodowe Centrum Nauki EEA and Norway Grants Instytut Kultur Śródziemnomorskich i Orientalnych PAN Polska Akademia Nauk

📣We are pleased to inform you that the electronic version of the 38th volume of our journal, Études et Travaux, is already available (in Open Access model) on the journal’s website (http://www.etudesettravaux.iksiopan.pl/index.php/en/current-issue). The volume contains a special section devoted to the Ancient Borderscapes, as well as a number of regular papers.

The editors of Études et Travaux would like to remind you that proposals for the 39th volume (to be published in 2026) can be submitted until 31 March 2026.

Études et Travaux is a double-blind, peer-reviewed, open access journal published by the Institute of Mediterranean and Oriental Cultures of the Polish Academy of Sciences. It is indexed by SCOPUS, ERIH PLUS and DOAJ, among others. It is published in print with colour illustrations and as an online Open Access journal, with the possibility of applying various Creative Commons licences to individual articles. Authors are not charged for the submission, peer-review and publication process.

Watch out BORDER STUDIES people!!!!

LAST WEEK - deadline oct. 25, 2025
Call for papers – Fez Agenda for Border Studies II
International Conference - Fez, Morocco | 18-21 May 2026

Borders, Walls and Violence Borders, Walls and Violence : Costs and Alternatives to Border Fencing

Watch our PI's lecture at the Museo Egizio, Torino, on YouTube
Maria Carmela Gatto
Instytut Kultur Śródziemnomorskich i Orientalnych PAN
Polska Akademia Nauk
EEA and Norway Grants
Narodowe Centrum Nauki

La creazione del confine geopolitico nell’Antico Egitto Maria Carmela Gatto, Accademia Polacca delle Scienze

Wishing you the best of holidays!
Maria Carmela Gatto
Instytut Kultur Śródziemnomorskich i Orientalnych PAN
Narodowe Centrum Nauki
EEA and Norway Grants

Aswan - Kom Ombo Archaeological Project (AKAP)
The Borderscape Project
Antonio Curci
Istituto Italiano di Cultura e Centro Archeologico Italiano - Il Cairo

**Lecture is available both in presence and Online
Sunday 27th of October - 17:00 PM - Italian Archeological Center - 14 Champollion street – Down Town – Midan El Tahrir

To confirm attendance in presence at the CAI https://forms.gle/CsPHdawbSgFtvSz99
Online attendance is available, through https://us06web.zoom.us/j/84387189419

Just out!!
Great collaboration between The Borderscape Project and Aswan - Kom Ombo Archaeological Project (AKAP) PI Maria Carmela Gatto, the Technopregypt PI, Jade Bajeot, and Mary Ownby of Ownby Analytical, LLC

Aswan - Kom Ombo Archaeological Project (AKAP) Narodowe Centrum Nauki MSCA Postdoctoral Fellowship 2024 EEA and Norway Grants Instytut Kultur Śródziemnomorskich i Orientalnych PAN Polska Akademia Nauk Dipartimento di Storia Culture Civiltà - Università di Bologna Antonio Curci

The Social Implication of a “mixed” Ceramic Assemblage: Understanding the Predynastic Community of Nag el-Qarmila (First Nile Cataract, Egypt) Through Pottery Technology - African Archaeological Review This article investigates the social landscape of the First Nile Cataract region in the 4th mill. BCE through the application of petrographic and technological approaches to pottery analysis. The study focuses on the ceramic assemblages from the settlement WK15 and the necropolis WK14 at Nag el-Qarm...