Piotr Bieliński

Piotr Bielinski (born 1948 in Bern, Switzerland) is a Polish Mediterranean archaeologist, professor of humanities, specializing in the archaeology of the ancient Middle East.

His research interests include the art - especially glyptics - and architecture of Mesopotamia, Syro-Palestine, Anatolia, and the Persian Gulf from the Chalcolithic to the Bronze Age.

In 1978, at the same university, he received a doctoral degree based on a dissertation on residential architecture in Syro-Palestine in the middle and late Bronze Age.

Beginning in 1984, he began directing excavations at PCMA UW at the following sites in the region: Tell Rijim and Tell Raffaan (Iraq), Tell Abu Hafur, Tell Djassa, Tell Rad Shaqrah, and Tell Arbid (Syria).

In 2015, he expanded PCMA UW's work in the Arabian Peninsula by starting a research project in the Qumayrah Valley.