born 4 June 1966 in Warsaw

       I was born on 4th June, 1966 in Warsaw. Since 1989 I studied Mediterranean archaeology in the Institute of Archaeology, University of Warsaw. I graduated in 1994 with the M.A. work 'Małe piramidy schodkowe' ('Minor Step Pyramids'), supervised by prof. Karol Myśliwiec. In 1994-95 I was working in the Research Centre for Mediterranean Archaeology, Polish Academy of Sciences, and subsequently, in 1995-96 lived in Egypt with a scholarship of the Egyptian government. Back to Poland I started doctoral studies in the Historical Faculty of the University of Warsaw (1996-2001). My dissertation, entitled "Relief Decoration in the Royal Mortuary Complexes of the Old Kingdom . Studies in Development, Scene Content, and Iconography" was defended in 2003 (supervisor: prof. Karol Myśliwiec, referees: prof. Ewa Laskowska-Kusztal, prof. Joachim Śliwa, prof. Dietrich Wildung). The thesis remains unpublished; however, thanks to my colleagues in Boston, its primitive version is available in the internet.
       Since 2001 I have been working in the Archaeological Museum in Poznań, where I am the curator of the Egyptian Gallery. In 2001-2004 I was giving lectures in the Institute of Prehistory of the Adam Mickiewicz University, where since 2004 I am an assistant professor (since 2008 in the newly created Department of the Archaeology of Mediterranean Civilizations). I have been giving regular lectures on Egyptian Archaeology and Introduction to Mediterranean Archaeology, as well as additional courses on Hieroglyphs, Religion of Ancient Egypt, Egyptian Art, Egyptian Architecture.
       Since 1993 I have taken part in works of Polish archaeological missions in Egypt, including those at Tell Atrib, Saqqara and Deir el-Bahari. Recently I am a deputy director of the Polish-Egyptian Archaeological and Conservation Mission in the Temple of Hatshepsut at Deir el-Bahari.
       In 2006 I got A. W. Mellon scholarship and spent two months in the Egyptian Department of the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York. In recent years I was privileged to give lectures in Prague, Oxford, Baltimore, Boston, Toronto, Luxor. I regularly take part in Egyptological conferences, recently: The X International Congress of Egyptologists, Rodos 22-29 May 2008 (paper on: "Ideology of nemes and khat at Deir el-Bahari"); Vth Central European Conference of Egyptologists, Pułtusk 22-24 June 2009 (paper on: "The Bzn -substance or How the Drill Works").
       I am a member of the International Association of Egyptologists, Egypt Exploration Society and Poznańskie Towarzystwo Prehistoryczne (Poznań Prehistoric Society), and the president of Poznań Egyptological Society.

       My research fields are related to the ideology of kingship and its realization in the architecture and art. My studies concentrate on the Old Kingdom royal mortuary complexes and on the 'Mansions of Millions of Years' of the New Kingdom, especially the architecture, statuary and relief decoration of the temple of Hatshepsut at Deir el-Bahari. Various issues of my studies in Hatshepsut's temple include: the relation Deir el-Bahari - Karnak, the statuary program of the temple, sequence and orientation of the scenes and motifs in the relief decoration, erasures and re-cutting of the reliefs, royal crowns, Seth, Behdety, colours of representations of rulers and royal ladies, hieroglyphic palaeography.
       Another field of my interest are raw materials, especially stones used in Ancient Egypt.
       Hobby: capybaras

"Fayum in the Old Kingdom", Göttinger Miszellen 160 (1998), pp. 17-22.

"Date and Function of the So-called Minor Step Pyramids", Göttinger Miszellen 162 (1998), pp. 39-52.

Jak budowano egipskie piramidy?, Poznań 2001.

Relief Decoration in the Royal Mortuary Complexes of the Old Kingdom. Studies in the Development, Scene Content and Iconography, PhD Diss., Warsaw University 2003 (internet publication: www.gizapyramids.org)

"Ifset, czyli hcaos [sic]. Uwagi na temat książki Wiesława Batora Religia starożytnego Egiptu" (internet publication: www.egiptologia.pl)

Śmierć i życie w starożytnym Egipcie, Poznań 2005.

"Skarby w śmieciach", Wiedza i życie 4 (2006), pp. 26- 28.

"Red, Yellow, and Pink. Ideology of Skin Hues at Deir el-Bahari", Fontes Archeologici Posnanienses 43 (2007), pp. 22-50.

"Król Hatszepsut", National Geographic, Polish edition, September 2007, pp. 2-17.

"Religia starożytnego Egiptu", w: K. Pilarczyk, J. Drabina (eds.), Religie Starożytnego Bliskiego Wschodu , Kraków 2008, pp. 27-110.

"History of the Third Dynasty. Another Update on the Kings and Monuments", in: H.

Vymazalová, M. Bárta (red.), Chronology and Archaeology in Ancient Egypt (The Third Millennium B.C.), Prague 2008, pp. 87-103.

"Fate of Seth in the Temple of Hatshepsut", Etudes et Travaux 22 (2009), pp. 37-60.

A. Ćwiek, M. Sankiewicz, "The Scene of 'Going Round the Wall' on the North Wall of the Portico of the Birth", Polish Archaeology in the Mediterranean XVIII. Reports 2006 (2008), pp. 290-294.