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Biernacki, Andrzej B.: The thirty years of the exploration of Novae (Moesia Inferior) by the international interdisciplinary archaeological expedition of the Adam Mickiewicz University in Poznań
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allowed the Polish Expedition to disassemble the cabins and reassemble them in
the area of the archeological camp at Novae, as well as to renovate them and
adapt them to the Expedition’s research and living reąuirements.
The exploration is funded by the Polish Govemment’s Research Committee,
the President of the UAM and the Head of the Institute of History of the UAM.
The research results and the experience which the members of the Archeo-
logical Expedition of the UAM have gained at Novae, are now finding a practi-
cal use in other research projects.
Since 1997, the members of the Expedition have also been taking part in the
Polish-Egyptian restoration mission to the Roman port of Leucaspis (now Mari-
na El Alamein, Egypt). The head of the mission is Prof. Stanisław Medeksza,
Ph.D., D.Sc.
Since 1998, a joint Polish-Ukrainian research project has been underway, with
a view to publish a complete description of the early Christian architecture of
Chersonesus Taurica (Sevastopol, Crimea, Ukrainę). The project is funded by
the Polish Government’s Research Committee and headed by Dr. Andrzej B.
Biernacki. Ukrainian members of the team include Stanislav Ryżov, Elena Kleni-
na, Tatjana Jaśeva and Larissa Sedikova of the Nacionalnyj Zapovednik “Cher-
sones Tavrićeskij ” (the National Reserve “Chersonesus Taurica”).
The results of the exploration of Novae have been and are presented at nu-
merous international congresses and conferences worldwide, arousing increas-
ing interest among archeologists and historians as well as epigraphists, geolo-
gists, physicists and archeozoologists.
Novae is also a symbol of long-lasting fruitful cooperation between Bulgari-
an and Polish scholars and scientists. The many years’ heads of the Polish and
the Bulgarian expedition, Prof. Ludwika Preiss and Prof. Marija Cićikova, have
played a particularly important part in this project. Their enormous personal in-
volvement, assistance and support, which are still thankfully remembered, have
helped define the professional interests and preferences of many of the archeol-
ogists who are now working at Novae.
Finałly, let us emphasize another significant aspect of the exploration of No-
vae and the Polish-Bulgarian cooperation. This excavation site has also been the
place of practical training for morę than a thousand Polish students of archeolo-
gy, architecture, history, ancient languages and literaturę, history of the art, ge-
ology, chemistry and other fields of knowledge. The scholarly careers of several
professors and doctors have begun there. A whole army of research workers will
always remember Novae as their first professional scholarly or scientific project.
Our expedition would not have achieved so much success without the help of
hundreds of inhabitants of Svistov and the nearby villages, including Vardim
and Carevec, who for thirty years have been taking part in each season of exca-
vation at Novae doing the exhausting and demanding physical work. After some
years, many of them acąuired morę experience than the students of the 2nd and
allowed the Polish Expedition to disassemble the cabins and reassemble them in
the area of the archeological camp at Novae, as well as to renovate them and
adapt them to the Expedition’s research and living reąuirements.
The exploration is funded by the Polish Govemment’s Research Committee,
the President of the UAM and the Head of the Institute of History of the UAM.
The research results and the experience which the members of the Archeo-
logical Expedition of the UAM have gained at Novae, are now finding a practi-
cal use in other research projects.
Since 1997, the members of the Expedition have also been taking part in the
Polish-Egyptian restoration mission to the Roman port of Leucaspis (now Mari-
na El Alamein, Egypt). The head of the mission is Prof. Stanisław Medeksza,
Ph.D., D.Sc.
Since 1998, a joint Polish-Ukrainian research project has been underway, with
a view to publish a complete description of the early Christian architecture of
Chersonesus Taurica (Sevastopol, Crimea, Ukrainę). The project is funded by
the Polish Government’s Research Committee and headed by Dr. Andrzej B.
Biernacki. Ukrainian members of the team include Stanislav Ryżov, Elena Kleni-
na, Tatjana Jaśeva and Larissa Sedikova of the Nacionalnyj Zapovednik “Cher-
sones Tavrićeskij ” (the National Reserve “Chersonesus Taurica”).
The results of the exploration of Novae have been and are presented at nu-
merous international congresses and conferences worldwide, arousing increas-
ing interest among archeologists and historians as well as epigraphists, geolo-
gists, physicists and archeozoologists.
Novae is also a symbol of long-lasting fruitful cooperation between Bulgari-
an and Polish scholars and scientists. The many years’ heads of the Polish and
the Bulgarian expedition, Prof. Ludwika Preiss and Prof. Marija Cićikova, have
played a particularly important part in this project. Their enormous personal in-
volvement, assistance and support, which are still thankfully remembered, have
helped define the professional interests and preferences of many of the archeol-
ogists who are now working at Novae.
Finałly, let us emphasize another significant aspect of the exploration of No-
vae and the Polish-Bulgarian cooperation. This excavation site has also been the
place of practical training for morę than a thousand Polish students of archeolo-
gy, architecture, history, ancient languages and literaturę, history of the art, ge-
ology, chemistry and other fields of knowledge. The scholarly careers of several
professors and doctors have begun there. A whole army of research workers will
always remember Novae as their first professional scholarly or scientific project.
Our expedition would not have achieved so much success without the help of
hundreds of inhabitants of Svistov and the nearby villages, including Vardim
and Carevec, who for thirty years have been taking part in each season of exca-
vation at Novae doing the exhausting and demanding physical work. After some
years, many of them acąuired morę experience than the students of the 2nd and