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190 Jahre DAI

Die 190 jährige Geschichte des Deutschen Archäologischen Instituts

Month: July 2019

190YearsDAI

Day 101 A precious gift: the Biblioteca Platneriana

31. July 201929. July 2019 DAI

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 […]

190YearsDAI

Day 100 New inscriptions from Germia

30. July 201929. July 2019 DAI

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 […]

190YearsDAI

Day 99 55 years of excavations at Zambujal

29. July 201929. July 2019 DAI

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 […]

190YearsDAI

Day 98 The sanctuary of Jupiter in Baalbek

28. July 201922. July 2019 DAI

“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 […]

190YearsDAI

Day 97 A villa as residence

27. July 201922. July 2019 DAI

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 […]

190YearsDAI

Day 96 Megasites of the Cucuţeni–Trypillia-Culture

26. July 201925. July 2019 DAI

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 […]

190YearsDAI

Day 95 Ottoman timber housing in Istanbul

25. July 201922. July 2019 DAI

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 […]

190YearsDAI

Day 94 A shrine for all religions

24. July 201922. July 2019 DAI

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 […]

190YearsDAI

Day 93 The oracle of Didyma

23. July 201919. July 2019 DAI

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 […]

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