Founded in 1874, the Athens Department of the DAI covers many areas in the investigation of the culture of ancient Greece. The sanctuaries of Olympia, Samos and Kalapodi, the Mycenian […]

In 2009, excavations began at Kamiltepe in Azerbaijan. The collaborative project between the Tehran Branch of the DAI and the National Academy of Sciences in Baku was initiated to shed […]

Arzhan, in the Uyuk river valley on the Siberian steppes, is the site of an enormous kurgan necropolis from the 1st millennium BC. The Arzhan 2 kurgan was excavated by […]

For centuries Erbil, in the region of Kurdistan in northern Iraq, has been an important commercial centre for the region with a key role in long-distance trade between Baghdad and […]

The Taman Peninsula is situated on the north-east coast of the Black Sea on the Asian side of the Russian Federation. Opposite, on the European side, lies the Kerch Peninsula, […]

The Palatine, one of the seven hills of Rome, with the Roman Forum lying in the valley directly to the north, the Capitol to the west and the Circus Maximus […]

Some time between 650 and 700 AD, a man aged 30 to 40 died in Lorma Salvatierra in the north of the Amazon Basin in Bolivia. He was buried in […]

In antiquity the city of Simitthus/Chimtou, 180 kilometres west of Tunis, was famed above all for its yellow marble, one of the most popular varieties of marble in the Roman […]

Since 1999 the DAI and the University of Bonn have been carrying out research at Karakorum, the ancient Mongol capital, in the framework of the Mongolian-German Karakorum Expedition. The city […]