Wawel Hill, a place of special significance in the identity of Poles, became a space for significant archaeological explorations in the 20th century. The relics of medieval buildings discovered by Adolf Szyszko-Bohusz were widely discussed in the scientific community, as well as in the pages of newspapers. The past became an important voice in the process of building the Christian identity of the Poland that was to be reborn years later. Archeological sites put into public access were the first examples in the Polish lands of musealization of excavation sites. Wawel Hill also became the center of a peculiar struggle between the Catholic celebrations of the Millennium of the Baptism of Poland and the state celebrations of the Millennium of the Polish State (1966). The subject of this talk will be the discourse of power devoted to the Wawel archaeological reserves.
