The DAI Rome, founded in 1829 as the Instituto di Corrispondenza Archeologica, celebrated its 50th anniversary in 1879. Its library received a precious gift on the occasion: Baron Ferdinand von […]

The church of Archangel Michael in Germia was a famous pilgrimage site and is today the largest and best preserved church ruin from early Byzantine times on the central Anatolian […]

The fortified settlement of Zambujal near Torres Vedras, approx. 50 km north-west of Lisbon (Portugal), dates from the 3rd/2nd millennium BC. In the core area, walls up to 4 metres […]

“Sculpture of stupefying assurance, grand and splendid,” the German architectural archaeologist Robert Koldewey once wrote to his colleague Otto Puchstein. He was referring to the architectural ornament of the sanctuary […]

The Albanum near Castel Gandolfo, the residence of Domitian (81 – 96 AD), was a new kind of villa: contrary to established tradition the Emperor also carried out official business […]

Since 2009, the Roman Germanic Commission, in cooperation with local partners and the University of Kiel, has been conducting research on so-called ‘megasites’ of the Cucuţeni–Trypillia-Culture in Moldova and the […]

Only about 100 years ago Istanbul was still almost entirely a wooden city. Dramatic geopolitical and societal change, new paradigms in town planning and architecture, and the advent of modernity […]

The great cave of Kashmir Smast in the mountains at the edge of the Himalayas overlooking the plains of Peshawar was venerated as a shrine for centuries and was visited […]

The sanctuary of Apollo in Didyma near the west coast of Turkey is one of the biggest sacred buildings of the ancient world. The DAI has carried out research there […]