Mariusz Gwiazda is an Assistant Professor at the Polish Centre of Mediterranean Archaeology, University of Warsaw. His main research interests concern the archaeology of the Eastern Mediterranean and Red Sea regions, with a focus on funerary practices and the long-distance trade of marble in Late Antiquity. He has participated in several field projects in Lebanon, Turkey, Kuwait, and Egypt, and since 2012 he has been involved in the excavations at Berenike on the Red Sea coast, where he currently leads the study of cemeteries dating to the post-Roman periods. He has also worked on projects in Philoxenite (Egypt), where he examined the development and urban transformations of a Christian pilgrimage stop on the way to the sanctuary of St Menas.
Mariusz Gwiazda
