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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

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, […]

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, […]

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 […]

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. […]

Following ancient tradition, people from all over the world are gathering at the Hill of Tara, Ireland, today to mark the summer solstice. The Roman–Germanic Commission of the DAI can […]

Since 2009 the DAI Rome has been coordinating the reinstallation of the National Archaeological Museum in Cherchell, Algeria, in collaboration with the Ministère de la Culture in Algiers and with […]