Tasks beside fieldwork include comprehensive documentation of finds, archives management and publication of the results in keeping with international research standards.

[1] The PCMA draws on the pioneering archaeological work of Polish archaeologist and egyptologist Prof. Kazimierz Michałowski.

The territorial scope covers the broadly understood Middle East and North Africa region, including the Arabian Peninsula and the Caucasus.

[2] Studia Palmyreńskie is book series published by the PCMA, together with the University of Warsaw Press (except volumes X and XI), presenting the results of archaeological research in Palmyra.

[3] The thematic scope of the title, apart from archaeological discoveries, also includes the history of the city, its religions, art and epigraphy.