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190 Jahre DAI

Die 190 jährige Geschichte des Deutschen Archäologischen Instituts

Month: April 2019

190YearsDAI

Day 9 A Roman imperial palace in Serbia

30. April 201919. August 2019 DAI

On 30 April 311, the Edict of Toleration was issued by the Roman emperor Galerius in Nicomedia, ending Rome’s persecution of Christians. A porphyry portrait of the emperor was discovered […]

190YearsDAI

Day 8 The oldest trousers in the world

29. April 201915. August 2019 DAI

We all have at least one pair of trousers in the wardrobe these days. But where does it come from? The oldest pair of trousers known so far was found […]

190YearsDAI

Day 7 A caliph’s palace in Spain

28. April 201915. August 2019 DAI

In 2018, the caliph’s palace of Madinat al-Zahra near Cordoba became a UNESCO World Cultural Heritage site. Founded in 936 AD, the residence of Caliph Abd al-Rahman III is the […]

190YearsDAI

Day 6 The oracle in the desert

27. April 201915. August 2019 DAI

Along with Dodona and Delphi in Greece, the oracle temple of Amun at the oasis of Siwa was the best known oracle in antiquity and is still famous today for […]

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Day 5 A stone tool workshop on the Solomon Islands

26. April 201915. August 2019 DAI

At the other end of the Pacific lies another exotic archaeological site. A research project on the prehistory of the Solomon Islands was launched in spring 2011. At the beginning […]

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Day 4 Water management on Easter Island

25. April 201915. August 2019 DAI

Today the DAI’s projects reach far beyond Europe and classical antiquity – as far afield as the Pacific Ocean. Easter Island lies totally isolated in the South Pacific, a good […]

190YearsDAI

Day 3 Pergamon – a major city in Asia Minor in classical times

24. April 201915. August 2019 DAI

Pergamon was one of the most prominent urban centres in the classical world – seat of the Hellenistic royal dynasty of the Attalids and sprawling Roman city. Politically significant in […]

Blick vom Kronoshügel auf das Heiligtum nach den Ausgrabungen im 19. Jh., im Hintergrund der Alpheios ©D-DAI-ATH-Olympia 226: Fotograf: unbekannt, 1899
190YearsDAI

Day 2 145 years of excavations at Olympia, Greece

23. April 201915. August 2019 DAI

The Athens department, inaugurated in 1874, was the first in a series of departments & commissions that were founded and they still shape the DAI’s global operations today. And with […]

190YearsDAI

Day 1 First publications

22. April 201915. August 2019 DAI

The year it was founded, 1829, the DAI launched the following academic publications: Annali dell’Instituto di Corrispondenza Archeologica, Bullettino degli Annali dell’Instituto di Corrispondenza Archeologica, and Monumenti inediti. The series […]

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