For the Phoenician seafarers and merchants, Mogador was a top port of call. At this seemingly far-flung spot a brisk trade was done in exceptionally rare goods in antiquity. Here […]

Chariot racing was the most popular sport in the Roman world. The Circus Maximus in Rome at times hosted races on more than 50 days of the year, before an […]

On board the Royal Yacht “Hohenzollern”, on 20th July 1901, the emperor Wilhelm II decreed that a Romano-Germanic Commission be founded. It took up its work in Frankfurt/Main on 1st […]

3,000 years ago, the ancestors of the Khmer produced salt for a large hinterland. Excavations conducted by the Commission for Archaeology of Non-European Cultures at Go O Chua (“pagoda hill”) […]

The fertile alluvial plains on the Ionian coast of southern Italy were magnets during the Greek westward colonization, especially for emigrants from the barren Peloponnese. Along with the Achaean city […]

Roman trading ships on the “Silk Road of the Sea” sailed from south Arabia or the Red Sea to southern India and Sri Lanka in around 40 days in summer, […]

Excavations in the Kerameikos of Athens were assigned to the DAI Athens by a state treaty on 16 July 1913. Systematic excavations carried out since then have exposed an area […]

The DAI’s Roman–Germanic Commission has been excavating near Vráble in south-western Slovakia since 2009. Many inhabitants of the Bronze Age settlement there were the victims of violence. This is evident […]

The early Bronze Age settlement near the town of Vráble in Slovakia is remarkable for its size – approx. 12 ha – and for a mighty earthwork fortification consisting of […]