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190 Jahre DAI

Die 190 jährige Geschichte des Deutschen Archäologischen Instituts

Month: June 2019

190YearsDAI

Day 70 The archive of Friedrich W. Hinkel

30. June 201926. June 2019 DAI

The archive of Friedrich W. Hinkel represents one of the largest collections of research materials concerning the archaeology of the Ancient Sudan. Thousands of photographs, slides, maps and drawings are […]

190YearsDAI

Day 69 Pre-Hispanic settlement on the Caribbean coast of Honduras

29. June 201926. June 2019 DAI

The archaeological site of Guadalupe is situated in a little investigated region on the Caribbean coast of Honduras. The settlement dates from the Cocal Period (1000–1500 AD). A platform excavated […]

190YearsDAI

Day 68 A Roman city gate with an eventful history

28. June 201926. June 2019 DAI

The Porta Nigra in Trier is the best preserved Roman city gate north of the Alps. This is thanks to an eremite monk called Simeon, after whose death the building […]

190YearsDAI

Day 67 Corpus of documents of Roman rule

27. June 201926. June 2019 DAI

Central media of Roman rule were edicts and letters in which a Roman emperor or governor officially proclaimed his will. These documentary texts are of great importance for understanding Roman […]

190YearsDAI

Day 66 Domus Aurea – the golden house

26. June 201918. June 2019 DAI

The Roman historian Tacitus records in his Annals (Tac. ann. 15, 38–41) that Emperor Nero had a complex of villas erected inside the city of Rome covering approx. 80 ha […]

190YearsDAI

Day 65 A Chalcolithic settlement in Wallachia

25. June 201918. June 2019 DAI

The settlement hill Magura Gorgana near the modern village of Pietrele in Wallachia, southern Romania, was an impressive sight in the 5th millennium BC. The tell, about nine metres high, […]

190YearsDAI

Day 64 Roman “building boom” at Munigua

24. June 201918. June 2019 DAI

The DAI Madrid has been active at the Roman settlement of Munigua in what is today Andalusia since 1956. A large part of the urban area has been exposed: forum, […]

190YearsDAI

Day 63 Kurgans in the land of seven rivers

23. June 201918. June 2019 DAI

The “land of seven rivers” – Zhetsyu – in southern Kazakhstan is a highly significant region in archaeological terms and an important centre of early nomadic culture given the large […]

190YearsDAI

Day 62 Ancient mining in Afghanistan

22. June 201918. June 2019 DAI

In addition to tin and gold, Afghanistan possesses large deposits of copper. A striking illustration of this is the site of Mes Aynak, where a Kushan to Sassanid period (c. […]

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